Occupation: Doctor Birth: October 13, 1821 Death: September 5, 1902
Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal..
Body: A cell state in which every cell is a citizen..
Life itself is but the expression of a sum of phenomena, each of which follows the ordinary physical and chemical laws..
If we would serve science, we must extend her limits, not only as far as our own knowledge is concerned, but in the estimation of others..
There can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another..
Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale..
Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins..
Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition..
My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation..
'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….
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….
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….
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….
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 ….
As long as vitalism and spiritualism are open questions so long will the gateway of science be open to mysticism..
Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children..
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….
Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be..
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..