If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWBelief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.
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Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.
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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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The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.
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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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Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.
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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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Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.
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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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Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
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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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Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.
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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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It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.
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My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.
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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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