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

The task of science, therefore, is not to attack the objects of faith, but to establish the limits beyond which knowledge cannot go and found a unified self-consciousness within these limits.

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

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.

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

Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community.

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.