Rudolf Virchow quotes

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. (Rudolf Virchow)
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. View quote
Rudolf Virchow
The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them. View quote
Rudolf Virchow
Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be. View quote
Rudolf Virchow
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. View quote
Rudolf Virchow
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. View quote
Rudolf Virchow
The future is with the vegetarians. View quote
Rudolf Virchow
Every cell from a cell. View quote
Rudolf Virchow
Mass disease means society is out of joint. View quote
Rudolf Virchow