... our Physick and Anatomy have embraced such infinite varieties of b…

Thomas Huxley
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... our Physick and Anatomy have embraced such infinite varieties of being, have laid open such new worlds in time and space, have grappled, not unsuccessfully, with such complex problems, that the eyes of Vesalius and of Harvey might be dazzled by the sight of the tree that has grown out of their grain of mustard seed. ✨ Thomas Henry Huxley (1910). Huxley's Autobiography and Selected Essays from Lay Sermons
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