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 VIRCHOWBelief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.
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Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children.
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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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Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.
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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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Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.
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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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Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.
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Body: A cell state in which every cell is a citizen.
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Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.
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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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Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
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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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Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.
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My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.
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