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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

My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.
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Myself Opponent Politics Preference
Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Beginning Belief End Leave Science
Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Community Education Existence Live Medical Way
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.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Medical Privilege Standard Statistics Work
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
Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Avoid Children Marriage
Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Law Superstition
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.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Death Manifestation Moments Operation Personal Sick Special
Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Doctor Goal Healing Position
Life itself is but the expression of a sum of phenomena, each of which follows the ordinary physical and chemical laws.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Chemical Expression Follow Law Life Ordinary Physical
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.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Curse Destroy Event Humanity Learning Shame Tolerance
The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Natural Poor Problem Social Solution
Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Belief Place Reach Science Stop
Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.
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New Oneself Prison Replacement
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
It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Curse Humanity Learning Situation Tolerance

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