Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWIf 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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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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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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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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Body: A cell state in which every cell is a citizen.
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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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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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Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as 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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Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
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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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Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.
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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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Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.
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Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children.
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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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