Nature is nowhere accustomed to exhibit herself more openly than in her failures.
Blood circulation
Suggesting that studying anomalies and pathological cases reveals fundamental truths about normal function.
c. 1650s (attributed)
Found in 1 providers: gemini
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"I avow myself the partisan of truth alone."
Philosophical"The body is a machine, but it is a divine machine."
Strange & Unusual"It seems to me that the motion of the blood is like that of water in a mill-stream."
Strange & Unusual"Man comes into the world naked and unarmed, as if nature had destined him for a social creature, and ordained him to live under equitable laws and in peace..."
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Strange & Unusual