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

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.

Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.

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

The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by 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.

As long as vitalism and spiritualism are open questions so long will the gateway of science be open to mysticism.