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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

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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Death Manifestation Moments Operation Personal Sick Special
Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.
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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.
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Medical Privilege Standard Statistics Work
Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
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Law Superstition
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
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 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 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
Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.
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Belief Faith Science
My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.
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Myself Opponent Politics Preference
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
Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.
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Belief Place Reach Science Stop
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
Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.
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Animal Division Human Medicine
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
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

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