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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.

Rudolf Virchow

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 VIRCHOW

Concern Knowledge Science Serve
Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

New Oneself Prison Replacement
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.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Death Manifestation Moments Operation Personal Sick Special
Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Animal Division Human Medicine
The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Natural Poor Problem Social Solution
My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Myself Opponent Politics Preference
Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Beginning Belief End Leave 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.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Medical Privilege Standard Statistics Work
If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Doctor Medicine People Popular Training Wisdom
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.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Attack Consciousness Faith Limitation Object Science
Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Law Superstition
Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Avoid Children Marriage
Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Medicine Scale Social Science
Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Belief Faith Science
The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Consciousness Know Limitation Science
As long as vitalism and spiritualism are open questions so long will the gateway of science be open to mysticism.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Open Question Science Spirituality

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