It is therefore proper to acknowledge that the first filaments of the chick preexist in the egg and have a deeper origin, exactly as [the embryo] in …

- Marcello Malpighi

The seed is the fetus, in other words, a true plant with its parts (that is, its leaves, of which there are usually two, its stalk or stem, and its b…

- Marcello Malpighi

For Nature is accustomed to rehearse with certain large, perhaps baser, and all classes of wild (animals), and to place in the imperfect the rudiment…

- Marcello Malpighi

In such sad circumstances I but see myself exalted by my own enemies, for in order to defeat some small works of mine they try to make the whole rati…

- Marcello Malpighi

Observation by means of the microscope will reveal more wonderful things than those viewed in regard to mere structure and connection: for while the …

- Marcello Malpighi

This, however, seems to be certain: the ichor, that is, the material I have mentioned that finally becomes red, exists before the heart begins to bea…

- Marcello Malpighi

We are many small puppets moved by fate and fortune through strings unseen by us; therefore, if it is so as I think, one has to prepare oneself with …

- Marcello Malpighi

Surgical knowledge depends on long practice, not from speculations.

- Marcello Malpighi

Nature has but one plan of operation, invariably the same in the smallest things as well as in the largest, and so often do we see the smallest masse…

- Marcello Malpighi