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

Rudolf Virchow

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

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