Quotes About Anatomy

The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body

The man described for us, whom we are invited to free, is already in himself the effect of a subjection much more profound than himself. A 'soul' inhabits him and brings him to existence...the soul is the effect and instrument of political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.

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. —CARL SAGAN

He has studied all the live strings of the human heart in the same way as one studies the veins of a dead body.

Un medico è una persona che accetta, per tutta la vita e con tutte le conseguenze, di occuparsi del corpo umano. E' questo consenso fondamentale (e non certo il talento o l'abilità) che gli permette il primo anno di università di entrare nella sala di anatomia e sei anni dopo di diventare medico.

Hace mucho tiempo, el hombre oía extrañado el sonido de un golpeteo dentro de su pecho y no tenía idea de su origen. El cuerpo era una jaula y dentro de ella había algo que miraba, escuchaba, temía, pensaba y se extrañaba; ese algo, ese resto que quedaba al sustraerle el cuerpo, ese algo era el alma. La cara no es más que una especie de tablero de instrumentos en el que desembocan todos los mecanismos del cuerpo.

Anatomy is not destiny, but it is not irrelevant either.

Those mothers with hereditary large pelvises were able to bear large-brained babies who because of their superior intelligence were able to compete successfully in adulthood with the smaller-brained offspring of mothers with smaller pelvises.

Perhaps the locale of the subjunctive mood will one day be found. Will Latins turn out to be extravagantly endowed and English-speaking peoples significantly short-changed in this minor piece of brain anatomy?

To relate a Beethoven sonata to the testicles is hardly in the style of traditional aesthetics.

But human anatomy and human endurance are variable. While the much younger nun had succumbed to her injuries, Ursula's heart kept beating, her body unwilling to surrender its soul. Not a miracle, merely one of those quirks of fate, like the child who survives a fall from a sixth-floor window, and is only scratched.

She remembered a poster of "The Visible Woman" hanging in her high school health class, revealing the organs in their anatomical positions. Ugly or beautiful, every woman is merely a package of organs

I'm known as the ankle bully, and I'm the CEO of it because I've made a lot of people fall during my lifetime.

I didn't know how men managed with something taking up so much room down there. And what the hell kind of design left a person's privates dangling loose in the air and changing sizes all the time?

She leaned in to kiss him, and he kissed her, and then she put her hand between his legs, wrapping her fingers around the cylindrical chamber of blood sponges that was his (and every) penis. He felt the corpora cavernosa, commanded by nerve messages from his subconscious brain, fill up with blood, and the tunica albuginea membrane, the penis's straitjacket, trap the blood inside.

Very thoughtful of you, Doyle," he murmured, taking lecherous note of how the chill affected certain regions of her anatomy. His brazen stare erased any last remaining hope that he might not be a party to their crimes. Of course he was. She was naught but merchandise to him.

Those monkey-thumbs were meant for dogs. Give me my thumbs, you fu**ing monkeys!

An Allosaurus backbone had a hole in which a Stegosaurus thagomizer fitted perfectly. Over the years, many of the fossil thagomizers that have been dug up have had broken tips.

That guy has muscles in places most people don't have places.

A great anatomist used to close his opening lecture to beginning medical students with words that apply equally to our own undertaking. "In this course," he would say, "we shall be dealing with flesh and bones and cells and sinews, and there are going to be times when it's all going to seem terribly cold-blooded. But never forget. It's alive!" II.

Weit hinten in irgend einer Nasenhöhle hatte der Zufall aus Schleim eine zweistimmige Panflöte geformt, der wir gezwungen waren zu lauschen.

Besides, if I'd decided to pull Carver's spine out of his body, I would've done it already." "Can you actually do that?" Curran frowned. "I don't know. I mean theoretically if you broke the spine above the pelvis, you could, but then there are ribs . . . I'll have to try it sometime.

The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe.

There are places on a man's head that are as hard as a rock. Your head's actually stronger than your body. And you don't have too many instruments up there workin'. But you got a lot of tools workin' in that body: the liver, the kidneys, the heart, the lungs. You soften that up and see what happens. I lived by the body shot.