Life consists in the sum of the functions, by which death is resisted.

- Marie Francois Xavier Bichat

Open up a few corpses: you will dissipate at once the darkness that observation alone could not dissipate.

- Marie Francois Xavier Bichat

Medicine is an incoherent assemblage of incoherent ideas, and is, perhaps, of all the physiological Sciences, that which best shows the caprice of th…

- Marie Francois Xavier Bichat