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My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.

Rudolf Virchow

The 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.
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Attack Consciousness Faith Limitation Object Science
Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians.
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Doctor Goal Healing Position
Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.
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Medicine Scale Social Science
There can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another.
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Faith Oneself Respect Science
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.
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Concern Knowledge Science Serve
Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.
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Beginning Belief End Leave Science
It 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.
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Curse Destroy Event Humanity Learning Shame Tolerance
Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.
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New Oneself Prison Replacement
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.
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Medical Privilege Standard Statistics Work
The body is a cell state in which every cell is a citizen. Disease is merely the conflict of the citizens of the state brought about by the action of external forces.
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Body Citizenship Force State
Life itself is but the expression of a sum of phenomena, each of which follows the ordinary physical and chemical laws.
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Chemical Expression Follow Law Life Ordinary Physical
Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.
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Belief Faith Science
The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.
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Natural Poor Problem Social Solution
Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.
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Animal Division Human Medicine
My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.
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Myself Opponent Politics Preference
If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians.
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Doctor Medicine People Popular Training Wisdom

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