“Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.”

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

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

If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians.

There can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another.

The body is a cell state in which every cell is a citizen. Disease is merely the conflict of the citizens of the state brought about by the action of external forces.

Science in itself’ is nothing, for it exists only in the human beings who are its bearers. ‘Science for its own sake’ usually means nothing more than science for the sake of the people who happen to be pursuing it.

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

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

Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.

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.

Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.

Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.

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

Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.

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.

I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.

Nanotechnology in medicine is going to have a major impact on the survival of the human race.

There is no medicine to cure a fool!

Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That’s a tough thing to face.

Not only in antiquity but in our own times also laws have been passed…to secure good conditions for workers; so it is right that the art of medicine should contribute its portion for the benefit and relief of those for whom the law has shown such foresight…

I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.

The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.

Love is the medicine that saves from disease.