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

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.

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.

Cellular pathology is not an end if one cannot see any alteration in the cell. Chemistry brings the clarification of living processes nearer than does anatomy. Each anatomical change must have been preceded by a chemical one.

Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.

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.

Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.