Ernest Starling Quotes

United Kingdom, Physiologist
April 17, 1866 – May, 2, 1927.

Ernest Henry Starling CMG FRCP FRS was a British physiologist who contributed many fundamental ideas to this subject. These ideas were important parts of the British contribution to physiology, which at that time led the world.

The law of the heart is thus the same as the law of muscular tissue generally, that the energy of contraction, however measured, is a function of the length of the muscle fibre.

Ernest Starling
- Energy
- Law
- Contradiction
Only by following out the injunction of our great predecessor William Harvey to search out and study the secrets of Nature by way of experiment, can we hope to attain to a comprehension of 'the wisdom of the body and the understanding of the heart,' and thereby to the mastery of disease and pain, which will enable us to relieve the burden of mankind.

Ernest Starling
- Pain
- Search
- Disease

In physiology, as in all other sciences, no discovery is useless, no curiosity misplaced or too ambitious, and we may be certain that every advance achieved in the quest of pure knowledge will sooner or later play its part in the service of man.

Ernest Starling