There can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another.
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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As long as vitalism and spiritualism are open questions so long will the gateway of science be open to mysticism.
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Body: A cell state in which every cell is a citizen.
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Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.
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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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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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Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children.
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Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.
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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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Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.
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Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
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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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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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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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Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.
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My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.
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