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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.

Rudolf Virchow

My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Myself Opponent Politics Preference
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.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Existence People Pursue Science
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.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Medical Privilege Standard Statistics Work
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.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Concern Knowledge Science Serve
Body: A cell state in which every cell is a citizen.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Body Citizenship State
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
Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Law Superstition
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
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.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Body Citizenship Force State
Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Beginning Belief End Leave Science
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.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

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
Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Belief Place Reach Science Stop
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

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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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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