“He [William Harvey] bid me to goe to the Fountain-head, and read Aristotle, Cicero, Avicenna, and did call the Neoteriques shitt-breeches.” FountainHarveyFountain Head Book:Brief lives Source: Brief lives
“He [William Harvey] did not care for chymistrey, and was wont to speake against them with an undervalue.” CareScienceChemistryHarvey Author:John Aubrey
“I have heard him [William Harvey] say, that after his Booke of the Circulation of the Blood came-out, that he fell mightily in his Practize, and that 'twas beleeved by the vulgar that he was crack-brained.” HeardBloodCracksVulgarCirculationHarvey Author:John Aubrey