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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 De Motu Cordis et Sanguinis (1628)

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I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.

De Motu Cordis et Sanguinis (1628)

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.

De Motu Cordis et Sanguinis (1628)

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

De Generatione Animalium (1651)

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

De Generatione Animalium (1651)

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Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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