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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.