Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.
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.
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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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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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Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.
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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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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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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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It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.
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Body: A cell state in which every cell is a citizen.
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Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.
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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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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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Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.
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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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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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