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Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.

Rudolf Virchow

Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.
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Medicine Scale Social Science
Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
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Law Superstition
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
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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Attack Consciousness Faith Limitation Object Science
Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.
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Animal Division Human Medicine
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
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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Curse Destroy Event Humanity Learning Shame Tolerance
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
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
Body: A cell state in which every cell is a citizen.
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Body Citizenship State
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
My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.
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Myself Opponent Politics Preference
Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children.
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Avoid Children Marriage
Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.
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Beginning Belief End Leave Science
Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.
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Belief Faith Science
Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.
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New Oneself Prison Replacement

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