Dissection Quotes

• The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

  Frederik Pohl

  Fiction, Method, Reconstruction

  86 Copy quote

• Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.

  Lord Byron

  Scandal, Form, Subjects

  LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.8

  64 Copy quote

  Show source

• The invocation of social necessity should alert us. It contains the seeds for Marx's critique of political economy as well as for his dissection of capitalism.

  David Harvey

  Political, Economy, Social

  "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.

  60 Copy quote

  Show source

• I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric of Nature.

  William Harvey

  Book, Science, Fabric

  On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals (1628) (translation by Robert Willis)

  57 Copy quote

  Show source

• The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Self, Knives

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2821, Delphi Classics

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• A biography should be a dissection and demonstration of how a particular human being was made and worked.

  H. G. Wells

  Biographies, Made, Should

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.16701, Delphi Classics

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of the seats of diseases, and cause us to blush at our prescriptions. How often are we disappointed in our expectation from the most certain and powerful of our remedies, by the negligence or obstinacy of our patients! What mischief have we done under the belief of false facts and false theories! We have assisted in multiplying diseases. We have done more — we have increased their mortality.

  Benjamin Rush

  Truth, Ignorance, Convince Us

  "Medical Inquiries and Observations".

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• Life became a science when interest shifted from the dissection of dead bodies to the study of action in living beings and the nature of the environment they live in.

  George Amos Dorsey

  Body, Action, Study

  5 Copy quote

• Science, my dears, is the systematic dissection of nature, to reduce it to working parts that more or less obey universal laws. Sorcery moves in the opposite direction. It doesn't rend, it repairs. It is synthesis rather than analysis. It builds anew rather than revealing the old. In the hands of someone truly skilled,...it is Art.

  Gregory Maguire

  Art, Moving, Hands

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.130, Harper Collins

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• For in the immediate world, everything is to be discerned, for him who can discern it, and central and simply, without either dissection into science, or digestion into art, but with the whole of consciousness, seeking to perceive it as it stands: so that the aspect of a street in sunlight can roar in the heart of itself as a symphony, perhaps as no symphony can: and all of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiation of what is.

  James Agee

  Art, Symphony, Effort

  18 Copy quote

• I actually wanted to be a doctor. But doing all those horrid rat dissections made me faint. I studied science till the 12th standard and later took up commerce. I was planning to do chartered accountancy, but fate had something else in store for me.

  Bipasha Basu

  Fate, Doctors, Rats

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I'll confess that a frustration of mine has always been that so much investigative journalism involves a dissection of events in the past.

  Jill Abramson

  Frustration, Past, Careers

  10 Copy quote

• You are taken sick; you send for a physician; he comes in, stays ten minutes, prescribes for you a healing medicine, and charges you three or four dollars. You call this 'extortionate' - forgetting the medical books he must have waded through, the revolting dissections he must have witnessed and participated in, and the medical lectures he must have digested, to have enabled him to pronounce on your case so summarily and satisfactorily.

  Fanny Fern

  Book, Taken, Healing

  FANNY FERN (1857). “FRESH LEAVES”, p.54

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The point is that no matter what you choose to do with your body when you die, it won't, ultimately, be very appealing. If you are inclined to donate yourself to science, you should not let images of dissection or dismemberment put you off. They are no more or less gruesome, in my opinion, than ordinary decay or the sewing shut of your jaws via your nostrils for a funeral viewing.

  Mary Roach

  Funeral, Ordinary, Cadavers

  Mary Roach (2004). “Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers”, p.82, W. W. Norton & Company

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Shakespeare brings us to know ourselves. Dante, with his dissection of all others, bids us to know one another.

  Matthew Pearl

  Knows

  4 Copy quote

• When in many dissections, carried out as opportunity offered upon living animals, I first addressed my mind to seeing how I could discover the function and offices of the heart's movement in animals through the use of my own eyes instead of through the books and writings of others, I kept finding the matter so truly hard and beset with difficulties that I all but thought, with Fracastoro, that the heart's movement had been understood by God alone.

  William Harvey

  Book, Writing, Heart

  29 Copy quote

• A realization and a dissection of the canon gave rise to the work. But there's also a sneaking suspicion of the canon.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Realization, Canon, Suspicion

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ben Skinner's brains and courage take us into the belly of the beast and expose the ugly truth of modern slavery. Instead of sensation, A Crime So Monstrous gives us desperately needed insight and analysis. This is an important book, the first deep look into America's confused relationship with human trafficking and slavery today. Skinner's balanced dissection of our government's haphazard policies will be controversial, but it can also be the foundation for a new anti-slavery agenda, one that ends the political games being played with the lives of slaves.

  Kevin Bales

  Confused, Book, Games

  9 Copy quote

• It is doubtful that the dissection of living animals and plants could be done by those who believe them to be holy. A pantheist would not view trees as so many board feet in the manner a Christian would. A pantheist would be less likely to measure the number of acre feet coming over a waterfall than his Christian descendent, centuries later who had become a scientist. That which is sacred would be handled with a certain reverence.

  Wes Jackson

  Christian, Believe, Animal

  8 Copy quote

• I will never say, 'support the troops.' I don't believe in the validity of that statement. People say, 'I don't support the war, I support the troops' as though you can actually separate the two. You cannot; the troops are a part of the war, they have become the war and there is no valid dissection of the two. Other people shout with glaring eyes that we should give up our politics, give up our political affiliations in favor of 'just supporting the troops.' I wish everything were that easy.

  Thomas Naughton

  Giving Up, Hate, War

  7 Copy quote

• Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a thing, we treat it as absent, as dead, although it is still present - but above all in the sense of its radical dissection: the word 'quarters' the thing, it tears it out of the embedment in its concrete context, it treats its component parts as entities with an autonomous existence: we speak about color, form, shape, etc., as if they possessed self-sufficient being.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Self, Color, Tears

  Slavoj Žižek (2001). “Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out”, p.51, Psychology Press

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• there have been too many events in my life, and in the lives of my friends, which have defied any kind of scientific explanation. Science does not have appropriate tools for the dissection of the spirit.

  Jane Goodall

  Events, Doe, Tools

  5 Copy quote

• Once we know the plot and its surprises, we can appreciate a book's artistry without the usual confusion and sap flow of emotion, content to follow the action with tenderness and interest, all passion spent.  Rather than surrender to the story or the characters - as a good first reader ought - we can now look at how the book works, and instead of swooning over it like a besotted lover begin to appreciate its intricacy and craftmanship.  Surprisingly, such dissection doesn't murder the experience.  Just the opposite: Only then does a work of art fully live.

  Michael Dirda

  Art, Book, Passion

  4 Copy quote

• The school was very supportive. The only class that I had to attend every day was biology when we were doing dissections. I would take an 8 a.m. bio class, dissect my animal, and then run to work.

  Mila Kunis

  Running, School, Animal

  Interview with James Franco, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2012.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• One of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split -up of problems into their smallest possible components. We are good at it. So good, we often forget to put the pieces back together again.

  Alvin Toffler

  Civilization, Skills, Together Again

  7 Copy quote