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Quotes About Anatomy

What Martin Luther said: Faith resides under the left nipple.
~ Jenny Offill
And his dick looks like a hot dog that got hit with a sledgehammer and sewn back together by a blind lady." "Thanks, Port." "You're welcome, D.
~ Jeremy Robert Johnson
I tell you we must have bodies. You cannot make doctors without them, and the public must understand it. If we can't get them any other way we will arm the students with Winchester rifles and send them to protect the body-snatchers on their raids.
~ Erik Larson
I'd never seen a penis in person and I was curious
~ Erin McCarthy
Inside the closed double lip of his jaws all of his eight rows of teeth were slanted inwards. They were not the ordinary pyramid-shaped teeth of most sharks. They were shaped like a man's fingers when they are crisped like claws.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Although my specialty is computational biology, I know enough human anatomy to suspect that the bone Eddie is chewing on isn't from something that was on a kitchen table or wandered into the backyard after getting hit by a car.
~ Andrew Mayne
They say the shortest way to a man's heart is through his sternum, after all.
~ Andrew Rowe
I think it is always appropriate to end a conversation about sperm with a sweaty handshake.
~ Andrew Smith
Our feet are our body's connection to the earth.
~ Andrew Weil
strabismic adj. late 17th century: modern Latin, from Greek strabismos, from
~ Angus Stevenson
How come I can pick my ears but not my nose?
~ Ani DiFranco
In our skulls, we carry around 3 pounds of slimy, wet, greyish tissue, corrugated like crumpled toilet paper. You wouldn't think, to look at the unappetizing lump, that it was some of the most powerful stuff in the known universe.
~ Eliezer Yudkowsky
If any person examines by the microscope that part towards the extremity of the spider's body from whence its thread proceeds, he will observe the spot to be, as it were, surrounded by five several protuberances or risings, each ending in a point and altogether forming a kind of enclosure.
~ Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
The eyeball is contained in the cavity of the orbit. In this situation, it is securely protected from injury, whilst its position is such as to ensure the most extensive range of sight.
~ Henry Gray
I'm a big fan of the digestive system.
~ David Macaulay
I have a face like the behind of an elephant.
~ Charles Laughton
Chew on this: Human teeth can detect a grain of sand or grit 10 microns in diameter. A micron is 1/25,000 of an inch. If you shrank a Coke can until it was the diameter of a human hair, the letter O in the product name would be about 10 microns across.
~ Mary Roach
the average number of legs in any human population is slightly less than two. So most people actually do have "more legs than average.
~ Robert H. Frank
Human embryos develop then discard gills, tails, and other apparent echoes of their evolutionary past.
~ Robert J. Sawyer
Earth's ancestral vertebrate had five digits, not six, and no Earthly animal had ever evolved with more than five. The alien's digits were arranged as four fingers flanked on either side by an opposable thumb.
~ Robert J. Sawyer
the prefrontal cortex developed. This is the part of our brain responsible for higher thinking.
~ Robin S. Sharma
He smelled the smells of commerce and listened to the cursing of the sailors, both of which he admired: the former, as it reeked of wealth, and the latter because it combined his two other chief preoccupations, these being theology and anatomy.
~ Roger Zelazny
For those who like to quote Aristotle's wisdom when appealing to his "Prime Mover" argument for the existence of God, let us remember that he also claimed that women had a different number of teeth than men, presumably without bothering to check.) Everything
~ Lawrence M. Krauss