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In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life.

In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life.

Oliver Sacks
Life, Anatomy And Physiology, Disease
"Literature about medicine may be all that can save us" by Andrew Solomon, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2016.

The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race.

Wilder Penfield
Future, Destiny, Anatomy And Physiology
Wilder Penfield (1963). “The second career: with other essays and addresses”

The object of my researches is the brain. The cranium is only a faithful cast of the external surface of the brain, and is consequently but a minor part of the principal object.

Franz Joseph Gall
Skulls, Anatomy And Physiology, Faithful

Descriptive anatomy is to physiology what geography is to history, and just as it is not enough to know the typography of a country to understand its history, so also it is not enough to know the anatomy of organs to understand their functions.

Claude Bernard
Country, Anatomy And Physiology, Typography
Claude Bernard (1974). “Lectures on the phenomena of life common to animals and plants”, Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd

Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history; it describes the theatre of events.

Jean Fernel
Anatomy And Physiology, Theatre, Events

Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Selfish, Anatomy And Physiology, Astrology
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.102, 谷月社

When you change your diet, you can change your entire physiology and you can heal

Charlotte Gerson
Heal, Physiology, Diets

We know evolution happened not because of transitional fossils such as A. natans but because of the convergence of evidence from such diverse fields as geology, paleontology, biogeography, comparative anatomy and physiology, molecular biology, genetics, and many more.

Michael Shermer
Anatomy And Physiology, Paleontology, Molecular Biology
Michael Shermer (2007). “Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design”, p.51, Macmillan

Medical training taught me the art of breaking down the complex maze of stories, symbols and rituals into clear systems. You could say that it helped me figure out the anatomy and physiology of mythology and its relevance in a society more incisively. How is it that no society can, or does, exist without them?

Devdutt Pattanaik
Art, Anatomy And Physiology, Training

My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings - what we sometimes call "mind" - are a consequence of its anatomy and physiology, and nothing more.

Carl Sagan
Anatomy And Physiology, Brain, Mind
Carl Sagan (2012). “Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence”, p.7, Ballantine Books

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