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.

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

'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.

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

Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community.

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.

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