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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.

Rudolf Virchow

Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.
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Beginning Belief End Leave Science
Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
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Law Superstition
My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.
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Myself Opponent Politics Preference
Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.
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Belief Faith Science
As long as vitalism and spiritualism are open questions so long will the gateway of science be open to mysticism.
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Open Question Science Spirituality
The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.
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Natural Poor Problem Social Solution
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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Attack Consciousness Faith Limitation Object Science
Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.
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Medicine Scale Social Science
Body: A cell state in which every cell is a citizen.
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Body Citizenship State
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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Medical Privilege Standard Statistics Work
There can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another.
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Faith Oneself Respect Science
The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.
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Consciousness Know Limitation Science
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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Doctor Medicine People Popular Training Wisdom
Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.
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Animal Division Human Medicine
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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Chemical Expression Follow Law Life Ordinary Physical
Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Community Education Existence Live Medical Way

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