Giovanni Battista Morgagni quotes

Giovanni Battista Morgagni quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Those who have dissected or inspected many [bodies] have at least learnt to doubt; while others who are ignorant of anatomy and do not take the trouble to attend it are in no doubt at all.”
-- Giovanni Battista Morgagni

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“A man of about fifty-four years of age, had begun, five or six months before, to be somewhat emaciated in his whole body...a troublesome vomiting came on, of a fluid which resembl’d water, tinctur’d with soot.... Death took place.... In the stomach...was an ulcerated cancerous tumour.... Betwixt the stomach and the spleen were two glandular bodies, of the bigness of a bean, and in their colour, and substance, not much unlike that tumour which I have describ’d in the stomach.”
-- Giovanni Battista Morgagni

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“Let us not doubt that God has a father's pity towards us, and that in the removal of that which is dearest to us He is still loving and kind. Death separates, but it also unites. It reunites whom it separates.”

Source : Abraham Coles (1892). “Abraham Coles: Biographical Sketch, Memorial Tributes, Selections from His Works, (some Hitherto Unpublished.)”
“Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.”
“The probability that we face global warming caused by fossil fuels is now so overwhelming that it is legitimate to doubt the motives of those who deny it”
“There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.”
“It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.”
“The doctrines of the Bible are often not clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to a rude and ignorant people the practical essentials of the doctrine.”
“There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent; for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.”
“You are not a body. You have a body. You are a soul.”
“I'm a short woman with a pretty good body and large breasts â€” that's not what I think of as sexy.”

Source : "There Are Worse Things I Could Do". Book by Adrienne Barbeau, 2006.
“Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.”

Source : "My 12 pairs of legs". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February, 2009.

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