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

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

Disease is not something personal and special, but only a manifestation of life under modified conditions, operating according to the same laws as apply to the living body at all times, from the first moment until death.

Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians.

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

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.

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