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Quotes About Dissection

Para que explicar? Nada desejo explicar. Explicar é limitar. É impossível limitar Gabriela, dissecar sua alma.
~ Jorge Amado
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
~ E. B. White
Some Heisenberg principle frustrates critics who try to analyze how stories are written. Whatever they can analyze has to be dead before it can be dissected.
~ Wallace Stegner
That's what humans do. We label, categorize, measure, and dissect because it gives us the illusion of control.
~ Douglas Preston
To Sky, Clown had become something to be understood; something to be dissected and parameterised. Clown, he now recognised, was something like the bubble-drawing the dolphin had made in the water: a projection carved from light rather than sound.
~ Alastair Reynolds
There's something hopeful about 'Endgame.' Beckett strips everything away and asks what remains. There's this surgical dissection of the soul, but at the bottom, you find shafts of light.
~ Simon McBurney
The word 'autopsy' means, literally, 'to see for oneself.
~ Karin Slaughter
Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.
~ Mark Twain
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
~ E. B. White
Humor is like a frog; if you dissect it, it dies.
~ Mark Twain
Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.
~ E. B. White
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog: Nobody really enjoys it, and the frog generally dies as a result.
~ Mark Twain
You cannot understand what makes things live when you must first rob their life. And so when man learned to categorize, number and dissect nature, he lost its living quality and no longer felt a part of it.
~ Jane Roberts
Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.
~ Ingrid Newkirk
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.
~ Henry Gray
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.
~ Rene Descartes
Aortic dissection results from an intimal tear in the aortic wall. The primary morbidity and mortality results from extension of the tear. This extension is promoted by factors that increase the rate of change of aortic pressure (dp/dt), including elevation in BP, heart rate, and myocardial stroke volume. Blood pressure should be reduced promptly to near-normal levels. Aggressive control of BP with a vasodilator can trigger reflex tachycardia, leading to increased dp/dt.
~ Jean-Louis Vincent
Clarabelle...Clarabelle... You worked as Kenspeckle Grouse's assistant, did you not?' 'One of the. He fired all the others.' 'But not you?' 'He fired me on the second day, but I kept coming in. I had nowhere else to go.' 'And then you killed him.' 'Yes.' 'A Remnant squirmed inside you, and you killed Kenspeckle Grouse.' 'Yes.' Nye grinned. 'You're hired. But I have warn you, if you try to kill me, I will dissect you and sing along to your screams.' 'Can I have Mondays off?' 'You may.
~ Derek Landy
The room does not smell like apple. It smells like frog juice, a cross between a nursing home and potato salad. The Back Row pays attention. Cutting dead frogs is cool.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Cutting dead frogs is cool.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Those who have dissected or inspected many [bodies] have at least learnt to doubt; while others who are ignorant of anatomy and do not take the trouble to attend it are in no doubt at all.
~ Giovanni Battista Morgagni
Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
~ Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Let the historic dissection begin. Man-made global warming is a dying market and a zombie science.
~ Joanne Nova
No, Carolyn, you can't petition PETA to get a waiver from dissecting the frog. The frog's already dead. It donated itself to science. Don't let its sacrifice be in vain. -Brandon
~ Abigail Roux, Caught Running