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As long as vitalism and spiritualism are open questions so long will the gateway of science be open to mysticism.

Rudolf Virchow

Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
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Law Superstition
It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.
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Curse Humanity Learning Situation Tolerance
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
Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.
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Medicine Scale Social Science
Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.
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Beginning Belief End Leave Science
Body: A cell state in which every cell is a citizen.
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Body Citizenship State
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
Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children.
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Avoid Children Marriage
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
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
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
Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.
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Animal Division Human Medicine
Medical 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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Community Education Existence Live Medical Way
The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.
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Consciousness Know Limitation 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
Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.
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Belief Faith Science

As long as vitalism and spiritualism are open questions so long will the gateway of science be open to mysticism.

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