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.

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

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.

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.

Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.

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

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