Life consists in the sum of the functions, by which death is resisted. Marie Francois Xavier Bichat More Quotes by Marie Francois Xavier Bichat More Quotes From Marie Francois Xavier Bichat Medicine is an incoherent assemblage of incoherent ideas, and is, perhaps, of all the physiological Sciences, that which best shows the caprice of the human mind. What did I say! It is not a Science for a methodical mind. It is a shapeless assemblage of inaccurate ideas, of observations often puerile, of deceptive remedies, and of formulae as fantastically conceived as they are tediously arranged. Marie Francois Xavier Bichat medicine science ideas Open up a few corpses: you will dissipate at once the darkness that observation alone could not dissipate. Marie Francois Xavier Bichat observation darkness science
