Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWScience 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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Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.
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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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Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.
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Body: A cell state in which every cell is a citizen.
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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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Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.
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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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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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My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.
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Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.
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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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Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians.
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Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.
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The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.
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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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