Quote#Art
As art is a habit with reference to things to be done, so is science…
Quote byWilliam Harvey · 1578–1657
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: De Generatione Animalium (1651), Introduction..
English (original)
As art is a habit with reference to things to be done, so is science a habit in respect to things to be known.
— William Harvey
You may also like
I appeal to your own eyes as my witness and judge.
Man comes into the world naked and unarmed, as if nature had destined him for a social creature, and ordained him to live under equitable laws and in peace
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 profess both to learn and to teach anatomy, not from books but from dissections; not from positions of philosophers but from the fabric of nature.
I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.
Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities.