"The task of science, therefore, is not to……" — Rudolf Virchow
"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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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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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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'Science in itself' is nothing, for it exists only in the human beings who are its bearers. 'Science for its…
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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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