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

The body is a cell state in which every cell is a citizen. Disease is merely the conflict of the citizens of the state brought about by the action of external forces.

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

Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children.

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

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

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.