Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.
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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It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.
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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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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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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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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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Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians.
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Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
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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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Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.
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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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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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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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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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