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Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.

Rudolf Virchow

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
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
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
Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians.
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Doctor Goal Healing Position
Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.
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Belief Place Reach Science Stop
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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Body Citizenship Force State
Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.
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Medicine Scale Social Science
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
Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
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Law Superstition
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
Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.
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Best Insurance Writing
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
It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.
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Curse Humanity Learning Situation Tolerance
My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.
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Myself Opponent Politics Preference
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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Community Education Existence Live Medical Way

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