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

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

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.

Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.

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

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