Quotes About Virchow

Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.

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

Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.

So unstable are the most plausible theories in the light of objective, factual knowledge

At age twenty-six, Virchow wrote passionately that terrible social conditions in an impoverished part of Germany called Upper Silesia were the cause of a malaria and dysentery epidemic. His recommendation to the German government: if it wanted to do something about the epidemic, it needed to end the malnutrition, overcrowding, and poor hygiene. Better yet, he added, allow for a full and unlimited democracy in Upper Silesia.