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• The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.
• The task of science, therefore, is not to attack the objects of faith, but to establish the limits beyond which knowledge cannot…
• If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians.
• If we would serve science, we must extend her limits, not only as far as our own knowledge is concerned, but in…
• 'Science in itself' is nothing, for it exists only in the human beings who are its bearers. 'Science for its own sake'…
• Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.
• Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.
• No doubt science cannot admit of compromises, and can only bring out the complete truth. Hence there must be controversy, and the…
• Disease is not something personal and special, but only a manifestation of life under modified conditions, operating according to the same laws…
• Life itself is but the expression of a sum of phenomena, each of which follows the ordinary physical and chemical laws.
• Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
• Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.

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