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

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.

If we would serve science, we must extend her limits, not only as far as our own knowledge is concerned, but in the estimation of others.

Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children.

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

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