Excessive reservations and paralyzing despondency have not helped the sciences to advance nor are they helping them to advance, but a healthy optimism that cheerfully searches for new ways to understand, as it is convinced that it will be possible to find them. – Alois Alzheimer
Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind. – Napoleon Bonaparte
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality. – Alexis de Tocqueville
