Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWThe 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.
More Rudolf Virchow Quotes
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Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.
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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 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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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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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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Body: A cell state in which every cell is a citizen.
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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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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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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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Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.
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Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
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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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The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.
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Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children.
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Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.
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