My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWMedicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.
More Rudolf Virchow Quotes
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The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.
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Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.
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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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Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.
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Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.
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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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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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Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children.
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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 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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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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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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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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There can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another.
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Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.
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