Anatomy And Physiology Quotes:

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Funny, Marriage, Witty, Women Bashing, Dissecting

Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history; it describes the theatre of events.

- Jean Fernel

topic: Theatre, Events, Geography, Physiology, Anatomy

In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life.

- Oliver Sacks

source: "Literature about medicine may be all that can save us" by Andrew Solomon, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2016.

topic: Life, Gains, Disease, Physiology, Anatomy And Physiology

There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.

- Francis Crick

topic: Men, Views, Brain, Anatomy And Physiology, Neuroscience

Your brain has more than 100 billion cells, each connected to at least 20,000 other cells. The possible combinations are greater than the number of molecules in the known universe.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Inspirational, Cells, Numbers, Human Brain, Anatomy And Physiology

Descriptive anatomy is to physiology what geography is to history, and just as it is not enough to know the typography of a country to understand its history, so also it is not enough to know the anatomy of organs to understand their functions.

- Claude Bernard

source: Claude Bernard (1974). “Lectures on the phenomena of life common to animals and plants”, Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd

topic: Country, Typography, Enough, Physiology, Anatomy

The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race.

- Wilder Penfield

source: Wilder Penfield (1963). “The second career: with other essays and addresses”

topic: Destiny, Race, Brain, Physiology, Neurosurgeons

Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Selfish, Astrology, Astronomy, Palmistry, Anatomy And Physiology

The object of my researches is the brain. The cranium is only a faithful cast of the external surface of the brain, and is consequently but a minor part of the principal object.

- Franz Joseph Gall

topic: Faithful, Brain, Research, Anatomy, Researchers

Although man has included meat in his diet for thousands of years, his anatomy and physiology, and the chemistry of his digestive juices, are still unmistakably those of a frugivorous animal.

- Herbert M. Shelton

topic: Animal, Men, Years, Anatomy And Physiology

My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings - what we sometimes call "mind" - are a consequence of its anatomy and physiology, and nothing more.

- Carl Sagan

topic: Brain, Mind, Fundamentals, Anatomy And Physiology

Medical training taught me the art of breaking down the complex maze of stories, symbols and rituals into clear systems. You could say that it helped me figure out the anatomy and physiology of mythology and its relevance in a society more incisively. How is it that no society can, or does, exist without them?

- Devdutt Pattanaik

topic: Art, Training, Doe, Medical Training, Anatomy And Physiology

Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour spoons are gone); and anatomy and physiology become phrenology and palmistry.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.102, 谷月社

topic: Nature, Selfish, Science, Palmistry, Anatomy

We know evolution happened not because of transitional fossils such as A. natans but because of the convergence of evidence from such diverse fields as geology, paleontology, biogeography, comparative anatomy and physiology, molecular biology, genetics, and many more.

- Michael Shermer

topic: Paleontology, Molecular Biology, Fields, Geology, Physiology

In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to see that I was interested in cells and their functions.

- Sydney Brenner

topic: Moving, School, Second Chance, Medical Education, Medical School