The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWIt 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.
More Rudolf Virchow Quotes
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Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.
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Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians.
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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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My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.
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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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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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Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
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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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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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Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.
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Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.
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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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There can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another.
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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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