This organ deserves to be styled the starting point of life and the sun of our microcosm just as much as the sun deserves to be styled the heart of t….

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

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..

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

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….

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

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

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….

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….

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….

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

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….

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

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..

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….

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 ….

I avow myself the partisan of truth alone..

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….

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