Body: A cell state in which every cell is a citizen.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWBody: A cell state in which every cell is a citizen.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWLaws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWLife itself is but the expression of a sum of phenomena, each of which follows the ordinary physical and chemical laws.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWImprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWDisease 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.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWMedical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWMedicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWIf popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWScience 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.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWMarriages are not normally made to avoid having children.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWMy politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWMedical 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.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWIt is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWIf 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.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWAs long as vitalism and spiritualism are open questions so long will the gateway of science be open to mysticism.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWBelief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.
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