Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale. Medicine, as a social science, as the science of human beings, has the obligation to point out problems and to attempt their theoretical solution:… — 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
