As long as vitalism and spiritualism are open questions so long will the gateway of science be open to mysticism.
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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Disease is not something personal and special, but only a manifestation of life under modified conditions, operating according to the same laws as apply to the living body at all times, from the first moment until death.
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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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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 has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.
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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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Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.
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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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Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.
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Body: A cell state in which every cell is a citizen.
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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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The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.
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My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.
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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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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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Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
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