It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation, that it forgets the most shameful happenings in the daily shame of events, and that it can hardly understand when individuals aim to destroy this infamy.

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

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

It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation, that it forgets the most shameful happenings in the daily shame of events, and that it can hardly understand when individuals aim to destroy this infamy.

Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.

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.