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Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.

Rudolf Virchow

Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.
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Belief Faith Science
Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.
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New Oneself Prison Replacement
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
Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.
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Medicine Scale Social Science
Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.
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Animal Division Human Medicine
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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Existence People Pursue Science
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
As long as vitalism and spiritualism are open questions so long will the gateway of science be open to mysticism.
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Open Question Science Spirituality
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

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