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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 is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Consciousness Know Limitation Science
As long as vitalism and spiritualism are open questions so long will the gateway of science be open to mysticism.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Open Question Science Spirituality
If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Doctor Medicine People Popular Training Wisdom
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.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Curse Destroy Event Humanity Learning Shame Tolerance
It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Curse Humanity Learning Situation Tolerance
Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Doctor Goal Healing Position
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
There can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Faith Oneself Respect Science
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.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Attack Consciousness Faith Limitation Object Science
Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.
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New Oneself Prison Replacement
Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Community Education Existence Live Medical Way
Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.
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Animal Division Human Medicine
Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Best Insurance Writing
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
Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.
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Belief Faith Science
Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
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Law Superstition

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