29 Quotes by Rudolf Virchow

Disease is not something personal and special, but only a manifestation of life under modified conditions, operating according to the same laws as apply to the living body at all times, from the first moment until death.

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

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

If we would serve science, we must extend her limits, not only as far as our own knowledge is concerned, but in the estimation of others.

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.

It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation, that it forgets the most shameful happenings in the daily shame of events, and that it can hardly understand when individuals aim to destroy this infamy.

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

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

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