If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWDisease 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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There can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another.
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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.
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Body: A cell state in which every cell is a citizen.
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My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.
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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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Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.
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Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
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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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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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The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.
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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 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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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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As long as vitalism and spiritualism are open questions so long will the gateway of science be open to mysticism.
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Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children.
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