The body is a cell state in which every cell is a citizen. Disease is merely the conflict of the citizens of the state brought about by the action of….

Disease is not something personal and special, but only a manifestation of life under modified conditions, operating according to the same laws as ap….

Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones..

The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them..

Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians..

Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community..

It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation..

It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation, that it forgets the most shameful happenings….

Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be..

Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive..

Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale. Medicine, as a social science, as the science of human bein….

First, it must be a pleasure to study the human body the most miraculous masterpiece of nature and to learn about the smallest vessel and the smalles….

If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians..

Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children..

No doubt science cannot admit of compromises, and can only bring out the complete truth. Hence there must be controversy, and the strife may be, and ….

'Science in itself' is nothing, for it exists only in the human beings who are its bearers. 'Science for its own sake' usually means nothing more tha….

My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation..

As long as vitalism and spiritualism are open questions so long will the gateway of science be open to mysticism..

Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among the workers or among th….

Cellular pathology is not an end if one cannot see any alteration in the cell. Chemistry brings the clarification of living processes nearer than doe….

The task of science, therefore, is not to attack the objects of faith, but to establish the limits beyond which knowledge cannot go and found a unifi….