"No doubt science cannot admit of compromises, and……" — Rudolf Virchow
"No doubt science cannot admit of compromises, and can only bring out the complete truth. Hence there must be controversy, and the strife may be, and sometimes must be, sharp. But must it even then be personal? Does it help science to attack the man as well as the statement? On the contrary, has not science the noble privilege of carrying on its controversies without personal quarrels?"
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Rudolf Virchow
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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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It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.
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