Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWMy politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.
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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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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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Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.
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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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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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Body: A cell state in which every cell is a citizen.
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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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Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.
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Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.
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Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.
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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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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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