Rudolf Virchow Quotes
1821–1902 Germany
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The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.
Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line—nor should there be.
If there is real love, it is not difficult to exercise tolerance, for tolerance is the daughter of love -- it is the truly Christian trait, which, of course, Christians of today do not practice.
Mass disease means society is out of joint.
The scientific question is the logical hypothesis which from a known law further proceeds by analogy and induction, the answer gives the experiment, which is prescribed in the question itself.
The future is with the vegetarians.
Medical 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.
Cellular pathology is not an end if one cannot see any alteration in the cell. Chemistry brings the clarification of living processes nearer than does anatomy. Each anatomical change must have been preceded by a chemical one.
All cells come from cells.
For if medicine is really to accomplish its great task, it must intervene in political and social life. It must point out the hindrances that impede the normal social functioning of vital processes, and effect their removal.