Nature is nowhere accustomed to exhibit herself more openly than in her failures.
Blood circulation
Suggesting that studying anomalies and pathological cases reveals fundamental truths about normal function.
c. 1650s (attributed)
Found in 1 providers: gemini
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"The wise man will not be content with the knowledge of things as they are, but will seek to know how they came to be so."
Strange & Unusual"I hold that the motion of the blood is in a circle, and is constantly impelled and distributed by the pulsific action of the heart."
Philosophical"There is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or derived in some way from our senses."
Controversial"I began to think whether there might not be a motion as it were in a circle."
Strange & Unusual"It is by experiment alone that we can arrive at the knowledge of nature."
Strange & Unusual