If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWIt is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.
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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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Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.
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Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
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Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.
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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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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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Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians.
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Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.
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Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.
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Body: A cell state in which every cell is a citizen.
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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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Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.
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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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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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