“Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn't have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows.” PlayGodNaturePerfectLordDevilOrgansOur LordTrinity Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The cause of Sense, is the External Body, or Object, which presseth the organ proper to each Sense, either immediately, as in theTaste and Touch; or mediately, as in Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling: which pressure, by the mediation of Nerves, and other strings, and membranes of the body, continued inwards to the Brain, and Heart, causeth there a resistance, or counter- pressure, or endeavor of the heart, to deliver it self: which endeavor because Outward, seemeth to be some matter without.” HeartSelfMatterBodyCausesNatureBrainSeeingObjectsPressureHearingResistanceHuman LifeStringsNervesEndeavorOrgansMediationHeart And BrainMembranes Book:Leviathan Source: Leviathan
“I know that certain minds would regard as audacious the idea of relating the laws which preside over the play of our organs to those laws which govern inanimate bodies; but, although novel, this truth is none the less incontestable. To hold that the phenomena of life are entirely distinct from the general phenomena of nature is to commit a grave error, it is to oppose the continued progress of science.” KnowsLifeMindIdeasPlayBodyLawScienceCertainNatureNovelProgressTruth IsRegardErrorsGravesCommitOrgansAudacious Author:Francois Magendie