Quotes About Anatomy

We cannot experimentally map out the brain. It's just too big. In a piece of the brain the size of a pinhead there are 3,000 pathways like a city with 3,000 streets.

None of the body was designed to play football. Excuse me, you know, football, we're just not designed for.

In the dissection of the muscles, attention should be directed to the exact origin, insertion, and actions of each, and to its more important relations with surrounding parts.

The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and which sinews cause it; and which muscle, by swelling, causes the contraction of that sinew; and which sinews, expanded into the thinnest cartilage, surround and support the said muscle.

What is the actual plural of "penis"?' I ask. 'Is it "penises"?' 'Or it could be "peni"?' offers Cassie. 'Like fungi.' 'I think it should be "pena",' I tell her. 'Although that does sound a bit like a type of pasta.' 'Ohh, ohh, I've got it,' cries Cassie. 'You know that "goose" becomes "geese"? What if one penis becomes many "poonis"?

I would like those who are not at all versed in anatomy to take the trouble, before reading this, to have the heart of some large animal that has lungs dissected in their presence (for such a heart is in all respects sufficiently similar to that of a man), and to be shown the two chambers or cavities that are in it.

If you bleed into the second space, you bleed into your stomach and intestines. If you bleed into the third space, you bleed into the space between the skin and the flesh. The

Babies grow from a seed. The seed comes out of a man's prick and is planted in a woman's cunny.

Today's designers don't care if fashion has no relationship to human anatomy.

Gee, I'm not used to looking at these without the meat on them!

One Pinch, a hungry lean-fac'd villain,A mere anatomy, a mountebank,A threadbare juggler, and a fortune-teller,A needy, hollow-ey'd, sharp-looking wretch,A living-dead man.

What there will be, unfortunately, on the one side is silence, and on the other, evidence of bitterness, evidence of injustice, lack of gentleness, lack of pity. An anatomy of melancholy.

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around. —THOMAS A. EDISON

Your brain… weighs three pounds and has one hundred thousand miles of blood vessels. contains more connections than there are stars in the Milky Way. is the fattest organ in your body. could be suffering this very minute without your having a clue.

Around 1840, a German anatomist named Jakob Henle began to suspect the existence of noxious particles—creatures or things—that were too small to be seen with a light microscope and yet able to transmit specific diseases.

It's just a penis, right? Probably no worse for you than smoking.

Every man is blessed with his gifts from the Lord. One of mine happens to be a penis large enough that, if it had a penis of its own, my penis's penis would be larger than your penis.

It Takes 17 Muscles To Smile and 42 To Frown...It Takes Only 13 Muscles to Throw A Molotov Cocktail

An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating.

In his book Leading Minds: An Anatomy of Leadership, Harvard professor Howard Gardner

Men are those creatures with two legs and eight hands.

Le déplacement debout semble avoir, sinon entraîné, du moins permis d'autres aspects importants de l'évolution humaine : la réorganisation du crâne avec une augmentation du volume du cerveau, la libération de la main débarrassée de la locomotion et peut-être même l'apparition de la parole.

Let others bring knowledge of anatomy and physiology, of pharmacology and statistics. What Lainey brings to her husband is faith. Hope. And an abiding love.

Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human being a literal anatomy and a poetic anatomy. One, you can see; one, you cannot. One is made of bones and teeth and flesh; the other is made of energy and memory and faith. But they are both equally true.