29 Quotes by Rudolf Virchow

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

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

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

Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children.

If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians.

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

The task of science, therefore, is not to attack the objects of faith, but to establish the limits beyond which knowledge cannot go and found a unified self-consciousness within these limits.

Medicine must go back to nature and a physician should be the high priest of nature.

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