If we would serve science, we must extend her limits, not only as far as our own knowledge is concerned, but in the estimation of others.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWIf we would serve science, we must extend her limits, not only as far as our own knowledge is concerned, but in the estimation of others.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWBody: A cell state in which every cell is a citizen.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWMedicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWScience in itself’ is nothing, for it exists only in the human beings who are its bearers. ‘Science for its own sake’ usually means nothing more than science for the sake of the people who happen to be pursuing it.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWDisease 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.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWThere can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWBrevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWBelief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWThe task of science, therefore, is not to attack the objects of faith, but to establish the limits beyond which knowledge cannot go and found a unified self-consciousness within these limits.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWThe task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWMy politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWMarriages are not normally made to avoid having children.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWIt is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWBelief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWIt is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation, that it forgets the most shameful happenings in the daily shame of events, and that it can hardly understand when individuals aim to destroy this infamy.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWMedical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community.
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