Rudolf VirchowThinkers

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.

The Body is a cell state in which every cell is a citizen.

Brevity is the best insurance for the perusal of a text.

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.

Faith is incapable of scientific dispute, for science and faith exclude one another.

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

Medicine is a social science. Politics is nothing but medicine on a large scale.

Medicine is not wholly separate from politics. Politics is nothing but medicine on a large scale. The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and social problems fall to a large extent within their jurisdiction.

Politics is nothing but medicine on a grand scale.

Prophylaxis is preferable to palliation.

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

Science is tasked with staking out the limits of the knowable, and centering consciousness within them.

Science - religion is a false distinction representing two non-overlapping fields. Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.

Science - religion is a false distinction. for science and faith exclude one another.