Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWBelief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.
More Rudolf Virchow Quotes
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The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.
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My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.
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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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Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.
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Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.
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It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.
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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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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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Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.
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Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children.
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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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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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As long as vitalism and spiritualism are open questions so long will the gateway of science be open to mysticism.
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Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.
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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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