There can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another.

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

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

'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 than science for the sake of the people who happen to be pursuing it.

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

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

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 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.