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… — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
The body is a cell state in which every cell is a citizen. Disease is merely the conflict of the citizens of the state… — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation. — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians. — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops. — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
Disease is not something personal and special, but only a manifestation of life under modified conditions, operating according to the same laws as apply… — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
'Science in itself' is nothing, for it exists only in the human beings who are its bearers. 'Science for its own sake' usually means… — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among the workers… — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation. — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them. — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be. — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
Life itself is but the expression of a sum of phenomena, each of which follows the ordinary physical and chemical laws. — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive. — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
As long as vitalism and spiritualism are open questions so long will the gateway of science be open to mysticism. — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
No doubt science cannot admit of compromises, and can only bring out the complete truth. Hence there must be controversy, and the strife may… — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
