Disease is not something personal and special, but only a manifestation of life under modified conditions, operating according to the same laws as apply to the living body at all times, from the first moment until death.

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

Disease is not something personal and special, but only a manifestation of life under modified conditions, operating according to the same laws as apply to the living body at all times, from the first moment until death.

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

Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.

Life itself is but the expression of a sum of phenomena, each of which follows the ordinary physical and chemical laws.

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