There can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWThere can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another.
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Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.
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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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Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community.
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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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Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.
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Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.
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Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
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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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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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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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Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.
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Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.
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As long as vitalism and spiritualism are open questions so long will the gateway of science be open to mysticism.
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My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.
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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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