“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, a...”

Rudolf Virchow

“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

“Omnis cellula e cellula”

Rudolf Virchow

“Liebt man sich wirklich, so ist es ja nicht schwer, die Toleranz zu üben, denn die Toleranz ist die Tochter der Liebe -- es ist die eigentlich christliche Eigenschaft, die freilich von der heutigen Ch...”

Rudolf Virchow

“Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line—nor should there be.”

Rudolf Virchow