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

Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric of Nature.

The heart is the household divinity which, discharging its function, nourishes, cherishes, quickens the whole body, and is indeed the foundation of life, the source of all action.

Moderate labor of the body conduces to the preservation of health, and cares many initial diseases.

Civilization is only a series of victories against nature.

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 appeal to your own eyes as my witness and judge.

Only by understanding the wisdom of natural foods and their effects on the body, shall we attain mastery of disease and pain, which shall enable us to relieve the burden of mankind.

For the concept of a circuit of the blood does not destroy, but rather advances traditional medicine.

I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.

To God be the glory, great things He has done and greater things He will do.

We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

I'm not a competitive person and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive just nice.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

The issue is that [Saddam] has chemical weapons.

December 7, 1941. A date which will live in infamy.

Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.

Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously.

People love solving puzzles, and you always love it when somebody smarter than you is solving puzzles.

I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.