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.

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

The heart is the household divinity which, discharging its function, nourishes, cherishes, quickens the whole body, and is indeed the foundation of life, the source of all action.

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

Civilization is only a series of victories against nature.

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 depends, from which all power proceeds.

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

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 to relieve the burden of mankind.

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

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

I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.

What you call life is but a dream, and reality is relative.

I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.

The real excitement is playing the game.

Nice people are often not good people and good people are often not nice people.

History may not repeat, but it often rhymes.

All paths cause pain, so to chose the safe over the audacious will not give you less pain, only less beauty.

What turned me on to comedy was - well, first of all, I like being able to laugh, I like people who can make me laugh.

To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.

Perhaps we could write code to optimize code, then run that code through the code optimizer?

When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.