Wilder Penfield
Neurosurgeon
"The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race."
Anatomy And Physiology quotes
Anatomy And Physiology
9 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Claude Bernard
Physiologist
"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."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology."
Carl Sagan
Astronomer, Astrophysicist
"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."
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