The heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign…

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

I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.

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.

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

The sunn must lend his goulden beames, Soft windes their breath, green trees their shade, Sweete fields their flowers, cleare springs their streams, Ere such another smyle bee made.