Rudolf Virchow

The body is a cell state in which every cell is a citizen. Disease is merely the conflict of the citizens of…

— Rudolf Virchow

It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.

— Rudolf Virchow

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

Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.

— Rudolf Virchow

Body: A cell state in which every cell is a citizen.

— Rudolf Virchow

Disease is not something personal and special, but only a manifestation of life under modified conditions, operating according to the same laws…

— Rudolf Virchow

'Science in itself' is nothing, for it exists only in the human beings who are its bearers. 'Science for its own sake'…

— Rudolf Virchow

Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among…

— Rudolf Virchow

My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.

— Rudolf Virchow

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

— Rudolf Virchow

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

— Rudolf Virchow

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

— Rudolf Virchow

Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.

— Rudolf Virchow

As long as vitalism and spiritualism are open questions so long will the gateway of science be open to mysticism.

— Rudolf Virchow

No doubt science cannot admit of compromises, and can only bring out the complete truth. Hence there must be controversy, and the…

— Rudolf Virchow

If we would serve science, we must extend her limits, not only as far as our own knowledge is concerned, but in…

— Rudolf Virchow

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

— Rudolf Virchow

Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.

— Rudolf Virchow

“Medical education does not exist to provide student with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the…

— Rudolf Virchow

Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale. Medicine, as a social science, as…

— Rudolf Virchow

Cellular pathology is not an end if one cannot see any alteration in the cell. Chemistry brings the clarification of living processes…

— Rudolf Virchow

Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.

— Rudolf Virchow

Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children.

— Rudolf Virchow

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

— Rudolf Virchow

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

— Rudolf Virchow