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.
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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Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.
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Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.
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Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.
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Body: A cell state in which every cell is a citizen.
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Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
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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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There can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another.
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Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians.
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Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.
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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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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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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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Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.
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