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 the privileged.

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

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

Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.

Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.

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