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All we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

William Harvey

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Topic

The unknown Limits of knowledge

Author

William Harvey

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

Latin

Time

1628 1620s 17th century

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Citation

Harvey, William. "Dedication to Dr. Argent and Other Learned Physicians." Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus [An Anatomical Exercise on the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Living Beings]. Frankfurt: William Fitzer, 1628.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

Havelock Ellis

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Topic

Civilization Revolution

Author

Havelock Ellis

Source

Little Essays of Love and Virtue

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Ellis, Havelock. Little Essays of Love and Virtue. George H. Doran Company/A & C Black, 1922, ch. 7.

Would it be too bold to imagine, that in the great length of time, since the earth began to exist, perhaps millions of ages before the comencement of the history of mankind, would it be too bold to imagine, that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament which the Great First Cause endured with animality... And thus possessing the faculty of continuing to improve by its own inherent activity, and of delivering down those improvements by generation to its posterity, world without end!

Erasmus Darwin

Zoonomia

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Topic

Evolution

Author

Erasmus Darwin

Source

Zoonomia

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1794 1790s 18th century

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Citation

Darwin, Erasmus. Zoonomia; or the Laws of Organic Life. Vol. 1, London: Joseph Johnson, 1794, sec. 39.

Soon shall thy arm, unconquere'd steam! afar
Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;
Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear
The flying-chariot through the fields of air.

Erasmus Darwin

The Botanic Garden

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Topic

Technological progress

Author

Erasmus Darwin

Source

The Botanic Garden

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Prophecies and predictions

Language

English

Time

1791 1790s 18th century

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Citation

Darwin, Erasmus. The Botanic Garden. London: Joseph Johnson, 1791, pt. 1.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

Havelock Ellis

The Dance of Life

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Topic

Dancing

Author

Havelock Ellis

Source

The Dance of Life

Language

English

Time

1923 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Ellis, Havelock. The Dance of Life. Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1923, ch. 2.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Hippocrates

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Topic

Science Scientific method Unfounded beliefs

Author

Hippocrates

Source

Law

Language

Greek

Time

370 BC 370s BC 4th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Hippocrates. The Law. c. 4th century BC, pt. 4.

Current Citation

Hippocrates. "Canon." Hippocratic Writings, translated by J. Chadwick and W. N. Mann, et al. Penguin Classics, 1984.

As to diseases make a habit of two things-to help, or at least, to do no harm.

Hippocrates

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Topic

Practicing medicine Sickness and illness

Author

Hippocrates

Source

Epidemics

Statement Type

Oath

Language

Greek

Time

370 BC 370s BC 4th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Hippocrates. Epidemics I. c. 4th century BC, second constitution, pt. 11.

Current Citation

Hippocrates. "Epidemics I." Hippocratic Writings, translated by J. Chadwick and W. N. Mann, et al. Penguin Classics, 1984, second constitution, pt. 11.

Suffering is only intolerable when nobody cares.

Cicely Saunders

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Topic

Suffering

Author

Cicely Saunders

Language

English

Time

1960 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Saunders, Cicely. "The Management of Patients in the Terminal Stage." Cancer. Vol. 6, Butterworth and Company, 1960.

It is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.

Havelock Ellis

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Topic

Philosophy Journey vs. destination

Author

Havelock Ellis

Source

The Dance of Life

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1923 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Ellis, Havelock. The Dance of Life. Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1923, ch. 3.

Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth... Is that it is alive... Aloft, floating free beneath the moist, cleaming membrane of bright blue sky, is the rising earth, the only exuberant thing in this part of the cosmos... It has the organized, self-contained look of a live creature, full of information, marvelously skilled in handling the sun.

Lewis Thomas

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Topic

The earth

Author

Lewis Thomas

Source

The World's Biggest Membrane

Medium

Essay

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Thomas, Lewis. "The World's Biggest Membrane." The New England Journal of Medicine, 13 Sept. 1973.

We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.

Lewis Thomas

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Worry Being present

Author

Lewis Thomas

Medium

Speech

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1978 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Thomas, Lewis. Address given at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. c. 1978, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City, NY, USA.

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

Havelock Ellis

Impressions and Comments

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Topic

Noise Technological progress

Author

Havelock Ellis

Source

Impressions and Comments

Language

English

Time

1914 1910s 20th century

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Citation

Ellis, Havelock. Impressions and Comments. Constable & Company, 1914.

For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable.

Hippocrates

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Topic

Medicine

Author

Hippocrates

Source

Aphorisms

Language

Greek

Time

370 BC 370s BC 4th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Hippocrates. Aphorisms. c. 370 BC, sect. 1, pt. 6.

Current Citation

Hippocrates. The Aphorisms. Classics of Medicine Library, 1982, sect. 1, pt. 6.

Prayer is indeed good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Hippocrates

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Topic

Prayer Taking initiative

Author

Hippocrates

Source

Regimen

Language

Greek

Time

370 BC 370s BC 4th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Hippocrates. Regimen. c. 4th century BC, regimen 4, sect. 87.

Current Citation

Hippocrates. "A Regimen for Health." Hippocratic Writings, translated by J. Chadwick and W. N. Mann, et al. Penguin Classics, 1984.

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

Benjamin Spock

The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care

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Topic

Trusting oneself

Author

Benjamin Spock

Source

The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care

Genre

Psychological literature

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Spock, Benjamin. The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1946, ch. 1.

Almighty God hath not bestowed on mankind a remedy of so universal an extent and so efficacious in curing divers maladies as opiates.

Thomas Sydenham

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Topic

Opium Drugs

Author

Thomas Sydenham

Source

Observationes Medicae

Language

Latin

Time

1676 1670s 17th century

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Citation

Sydenham, Thomas. Observationes Medicae. London, 1676.

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children, the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best, after all.

Benjamin Spock

The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care

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Topic

Raising kids

Author

Benjamin Spock

Source

The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care

Language

English

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Spock, Benjamin. The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1946, ch. 1.

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

Havelock Ellis

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Topic

Man and machine Risks of technology Downsides of technology

Author

Havelock Ellis

Source

Little Essays of Love and Virtue

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Ellis, Havelock. Little Essays of Love and Virtue. George H. Doran Company/A & C Black, 1922, ch. 7.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

Hippocrates

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Topic

Mastery Learning Personal development

Author

Hippocrates

Source

Aphorisms

Language

Greek

Time

410 BC 410s BC 5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Hippocrates. Aphorisms. c. 370 BC, sect. 1, pt. 1.

Current Citation

Hippocrates. The Aphorisms. Classics of Medicine Library, 1982, sect. 1, pt. 1.

If anyone wishes to observe the works of nature, he should put his trust not in books of anatomy but in his own eyes.

Galen

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Topic

Nature Observation

Author

Galen

Source

On the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body

Genre

Scientific literature

Statement Type

Advice

Language

Greek

Time

175 170s 2nd century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Galen. De Usu Partium Corporis Humani [On the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body]. c. 175.

Current Citation

Galen. On the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body, translated by Margaret Tallmadge May. Vol. 1, Cornell University Press, 1968, p. 119.