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 in the daily shame of events, and that it can hardly understand when individuals aim to destroy this infamy.
Rudolf VirchowThere can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another.
Rudolf VirchowBelief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.
Rudolf VirchowFirst, 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 smallest fiber. But second and most important, the medical profession gives the opportunity to alleviate the troubles of the body, to ease the pain, to console a person who is in distress, and to lighten the hour of death of many a sufferer.
Rudolf Virchow