I profess both to learn and to teach anatomy, not from books but from…

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

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

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 avow myself the partisan of truth alone.

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

There is no question that education has been more generally diffused than it was in the middle ages, but it is doubtful if the number of thinkers has been increased, or real mental culture extended. Education loses in thoroughness and …