Cellular pathology is not an end if one cannot see any alteration in the cell. Chemistry brings the clarification of living processes nearer than does anatomy. Each anatomical change must have been preceded by a chemical one.
Rudolf VirchowThere can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another.
Rudolf VirchowMedical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community.
Rudolf VirchowFirst, 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.
Rudolf Virchow