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Anatomist Inspirational Quotes (629)

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I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.
Thomas Huxley
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A well-worn adage advises those who set out upon a great enterprise to count the cost, yet some of the greatest enterprises have succeeded because the people who undertook them did not count the cost.
Thomas Huxley
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I believe that the more time we spend choosing to run the deep inner circuitries of our right hemispheres, the more peace we will project into the world and the more peaceful our planet will be.
Jill Bolte Taylor
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Tears come from the heart and not from the brain
Leonardo da Vinci
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The eye transmits its own image through the air to all the objects which face it, and also receives them on its own surface, whence the sensus communis takes them and considers them.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Old age takes in part savoury wisdom for its food - see to that your old age will not lack in nourishment.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Every man at three years old is half his height
Leonardo da Vinci
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If every man possessed everything he wanted, and no one had the power to interfere with such possession or if no man desired thatwhich could damage his fellow-man, justice would have no part to play in the universe.
Thomas Huxley
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No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Nature alone is the master of true genius.
Leonardo da Vinci
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The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.
Leonardo da Vinci
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You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
Leonardo da Vinci
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In speaking of the work of machines and of natural forces we must, of course, in this comparison eliminate anything in which activity of intelligence comes into play. The latter is also capable of the hard and intense work of thinking, which tries a man just as muscular exertion does.
Hermann von Helmholtz
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O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a life of stillness and to obey the law which God and time gave to procreative nature.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Tolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins, in the eyes of most people, is for a man to go about unlabeled. The world regards such a person as the police do an unmuzzled dog.
Thomas Huxley
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But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts.
Richard Owen
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Although many of us may think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, biologically we are feeling creatures that think
Jill Bolte Taylor
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There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Leonardo da Vinci
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In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same
Leonardo da Vinci
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The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it.
Leonardo da Vinci
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The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish... because it draws water as its breath instead of air.
Leonardo da Vinci
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I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything especially as I am now so much occupied with theology but I don't see my way to your conclusion.
Thomas Huxley
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