I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric of Nature..

Nature is a volume of which God is the author..

Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart from the beaten….

Moderate labor of the body conduces to the preservation of health, and cares many initial diseases..

Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown..

There is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or derived in some way fro….

I avow myself the partisan of truth alone..

The heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them, the sun of their microcosm, that upon which all growth….

For the concept of a circuit of the blood does not destroy, but rather advances traditional medicine..

It is, however, an argument of no weight to say that natural bodies are first generated or compounded out of those things into which they are at the ….

Only by understanding the wisdom of natural foods and their effects on the body, shall we attain mastery of disease and pain, which shall enable us t….

As art is a habit with reference to things to be done, so is science a habit in respect to things to be known..

When in many dissections, carried out as opportunity offered upon living animals, I first addressed my mind to seeing how I could discover the functi….

Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown; nor do philosophers pin their faith to others' prec….

The heart is the household divinity which, discharging its function, nourishes, cherishes, quickens the whole body, and is indeed the foundation of l….

Civilization is only a series of victories against nature..

I appeal to your own eyes as my witness and judge..

Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men..

The animal's heart is the basis of its life, its chief member, the sun of its microcosm; on the heart all its activity depends, from the heart all it….

Harvey sought for truth in Truth's own book- Creation - which by God himself was writ;And wisely thought 'twas fitNot to read comments only upon it,B….

Harvey was not content merely to gather knowledge; he digested and arranged it under the guidance of the faculties which compare and reason. ... Harv….