Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWBetween animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.
More Rudolf Virchow Quotes
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Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children.
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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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Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.
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Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.
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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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There can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another.
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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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Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.
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Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.
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Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.
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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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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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It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.
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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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