"I have often wondered, and indeed not a little, at the great difference of opinion among anatomists and physicians in the matter of the pulse and the motion of the heart."

"I have always preferred to learn and teach anatomy from actual dissection and not from books."

"It is a thing alike wonderful and incredible, to observe how the blood, from the very beginning of its motion, is distributed from the heart through the whole body, and then returns to the heart again…"

"The truth is always simple, but the way to it is complex."

"The greatest pleasure is to be found in the contemplation of truth."