cardiac physiology Quotes

[T]he heart is like any other organ, you can weigh it on a scale.

The human heart is my school.

Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged.

This organ deserves to be styled the starting point of life and the sun of our microcosm just as much as the sun deserves to be styled the heart of the world. For it is by the heart's vigorous beat that the blood is moved, perfected, activated, and protected from injury and coagulation. The heart is the tutelary deity of the body, the basis of life, the source of all things, carrying out its function of nourishing, warming, and activating body as a whole. But we shall more fittingly speak of these matters when we consider the final cause of this kind of movement.

If you should take the human heart and listen to it, it would be like listening to a sea-shell; you would hear in it the hollow murmur of the infinite ocean to which it belongs, from which it draws its profoundest inspiration, and for which it yearns.

The human heart: its expansions and contractions its electrics and hydraulics the warm tides that move and fill it. For years Art had studied it from a safe distance from many perspectives...he listened in fascination and revulsion, in envy and pity. He dispensed canned wisdom, a little scripture. He sent them on their way with a prayer.

The human heart was such a complex organ, fragile and sturdy all at once.

Did you think that rats do not have hearts? Wrong. All living things have a heart. And the heart of any living thing can be broken.

The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe.

If you pluck out my heart To find what makes it move, You’ll halt the clock That syncopates our love.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed.

Even the human heart is slightly left of centre.

The human heart was undeniably the stupidest organ in the body.