Human Anatomy Quotes

Because the beauty of the human body is that it hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not a line wasted; that every detail of it fits one idea, the idea of a man and the life of a man.

If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms.

The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure.

Who knows what the human body would expand and flow out to under a more genial heaven?

Beware of averages. The average person has one breast and one testicle.

Man himself is a mysterious object, and the tools to probe his physiologic nature and function have developed only slowly through the millennia.

In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to see that I was interested in cells and their functions.

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

The circulatory system of man and the vertebrate animals can be considered as made up of a small number of organs or subordinate systems, which are easy to recognize anatomically, and the functions of which are on the whole quite distinct.

The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.

I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green.

It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to offer them was my knowledge in the drawing of animals.

Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10 27 atoms.

Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?

I contemplate the body, dead and diseased as well as alive and healthy.

We are over 60 percent water by weight. We're just a big ball of... blob of water, with enough organic thickener added so we don't dribble away on the floor.

If God had meant us to have group sex, I guess he'd have given us all more organs.

Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco.

The process of birth and the growth of human body into a complicated system are still a marvel for me.

Your digestive system is your body's Fun House, whereby food goes on a long, dark, scary ride, taking all kinds of unexpected twists and turns, being attacked by vicious secretions along the way, and not knowing until the last minute whether it will be turned into a useful body part or ejected into the Dark Hole by Mister Sphincter.

The heart in man signifieth the heat or the element of fire, and it is also the heat; for the heat in the whole body hath its original in the heart.

My approach is to start from the straightforward principle that our body is a machine. A very complicated machine, but none the less a machine, and it can be subjected to maintenance and repair in the same way as a simple machine, like a car.

The earliest period at which I have been able to detect the existence of the spleen in the human embryo is at the second month.

God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it, do you understand?

I've always felt that the placement of a man's testicles is an eloquent argument against intelligent design.