Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Thomas Willis

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Last updated on November 7, 2024.

Thomas Willis FRS was an English doctor who played an important part in the history of anatomy, neurology and psychiatry. He was a founding member of the Royal Society.

English - Scientist | January 27, 1621 - November 11, 1675

Source: Wikipedia

Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.

Thomas Willis

Diabetes is caused by melancholy.

Thomas Willis

Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding.

Thomas Willis

I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power.

Thomas Willis

I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power

Thomas Willis

To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that it understands all things but itself.

Thomas Willis

Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding

Thomas Willis

Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Thomas Willis

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