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

Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.

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

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

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 beings, has the obligation to point out problems and to attempt their theoretical solution: the politician, the practical anthropologist, must find the means for their actual solution. The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and social problems fall to a large extent within their jurisdiction.

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 external forces.

The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.