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Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.

Rudolf Virchow

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
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.
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Death Manifestation Moments Operation Personal Sick Special
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
Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.
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Beginning Belief End Leave Science
Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.
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New Oneself Prison Replacement
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
It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.
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Curse Humanity Learning Situation 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
Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.
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Best Insurance Writing
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
Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children.
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Avoid Children Marriage
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.
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Attack Consciousness Faith Limitation Object 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
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
There can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another.
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Faith Oneself Respect Science

Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.

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