Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.

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.

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

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

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

No doubt science cannot admit of compromises, and can only bring out the complete truth. Hence there must be controversy, and the strife may be, and sometimes must be, sharp. But must it even then be personal? Does it help science to attack the man as well as the statement? On the contrary, has not science the noble privilege of carrying on its controversies without personal quarrels?

Body: A cell state in which every cell is a citizen.