Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWBrevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.
More Rudolf Virchow Quotes
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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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Body: A cell state in which every cell is a citizen.
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The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.
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It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.
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Science 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.
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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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Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians.
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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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Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.
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Disease 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.
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Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.
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My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.
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Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children.
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Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.
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There can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another.
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