William Harvey

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.

— William Harvey

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.

— William Harvey

I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.

— William Harvey

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

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

— William Harvey