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 VIRCHOWThe 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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Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.
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Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.
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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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My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.
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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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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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The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within 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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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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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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It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.
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Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children.
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Body: A cell state in which every cell is a citizen.
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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 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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