It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWBelief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.
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My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.
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Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
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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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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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Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.
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Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children.
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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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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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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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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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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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Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.
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Body: A cell state in which every cell is a citizen.
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