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As long as vitalism and spiritualism are open questions so long will the gateway of science be open to mysticism.

Rudolf Virchow

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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Existence People Pursue Science
My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.
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Myself Opponent Politics Preference
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
Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.
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New Oneself Prison Replacement
Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children.
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Avoid Children Marriage
The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.
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Consciousness Know Limitation Science
Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.
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Medicine Scale Social Science
Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.
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Animal Division Human Medicine
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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Chemical Expression Follow Law Life Ordinary Physical
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
The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.
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Natural Poor Problem Social Solution
Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
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Law Superstition
Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.
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Best Insurance Writing
Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.
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Belief Place Reach Science Stop
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
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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Concern Knowledge Science Serve

As long as vitalism and spiritualism are open questions so long will the gateway of science be open to mysticism.

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