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The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.

Rudolf Virchow

Disease is not something personal and special, but only a manifestation of life under modified conditions, operating according to the same laws as apply to the living body at all times, from the first moment until death.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Death Manifestation Moments Operation Personal Sick Special
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
Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.
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Medicine Scale Social Science
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
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
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.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Consciousness Know Limitation Science
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
My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.
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Myself Opponent Politics Preference
Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.
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Best Insurance Writing
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
Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.
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Animal Division Human Medicine
Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.
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New Oneself Prison Replacement
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
Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
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Law Superstition
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.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Attack Consciousness Faith Limitation Object Science

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