29 Quotes by Rudolf Virchow

The absence of proof does not constitute the proof of absence.

Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community.

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

The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.

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

Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.

Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.

The body is a cell state in which every cell is a citizen. Disease is merely the conflict of the citizens of the state brought about by the action of external forces.

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.