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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.

Rudolf Virchow

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 cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.
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Belief Faith Science
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
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
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
Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children.
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Avoid Children Marriage
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
As long as vitalism and spiritualism are open questions so long will the gateway of science be open to mysticism.
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Open Question Science Spirituality
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
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
Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.
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Beginning Belief End Leave Science
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
Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
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Law Superstition
Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.
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Medicine Scale Social Science
Body: A cell state in which every cell is a citizen.
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Body Citizenship State
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

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