"'Science in itself' is nothing, for it exists……" — Rudolf Virchow
"'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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Rudolf Virchow
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25 Quotes by 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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The task of science, therefore, is not to attack the objects of faith, but to establish the limits beyond which…
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If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and…
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If we would serve science, we must extend her limits, not only as far as our own knowledge is concerned,…
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Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.
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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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No doubt science cannot admit of compromises, and can only bring out the complete truth. Hence there must be controversy,…
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Disease is not something personal and special, but only a manifestation of life under modified conditions, operating according to the…
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Life itself is but the expression of a sum of phenomena, each of which follows the ordinary physical and chemical…
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Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
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Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.
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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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