Rudolf Virchow Quotes

• Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale. Medicine, as a social science, as the science of human beings, has the obligation to point out problems and to attempt their theoretical solution: the politician, the practical anthropologist, must find the means for their actual solution. The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and social problems fall to a large extent within their jurisdiction.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Fall, Mean, Science

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• Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Community, Doe, Way

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• The body is a cell state in which every cell is a citizen. Disease is merely the conflict of the citizens of the state brought about by the action of external forces.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Cells, Citizens, Body

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• The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Physicians, Problem, Poor

  Rudolf Virchow, 'The Doctor' (Ervin H. Ackernecht)

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• Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Animal, Medicine, Lines

  Quoted in: Klauder JV: "Interrelations of human and veterinary medicine". N Engl J Med 1958, 1856.

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• 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 Virchow

  Humanity, Events, Forget

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• Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Healing, Goal, Effort

  Rudolf Virchow (1958). “Disease, Life, and Man: Selected Essays”, p.26, Stanford University Press

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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.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Life, Science, Law

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• It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Humanity, Horrible, Situation

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• Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Medicine, Social, Scales

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• First, it must be a pleasure to study the human body the most miraculous masterpiece of nature and to learn about the smallest vessel and the smallest fiber. But second and most important, the medical profession gives the opportunity to alleviate the troubles of the body, to ease the pain, to console a person who is in distress, and to lighten the hour of death of many a sufferer.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Pain, Science, Opportunity

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• La brevedad en la escritura es el mejor seguro para su lectura.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Writing, Science, Brevity

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• Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Science, Belief, Ends

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• Body: A cell state in which every cell is a citizen.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Cells, Citizens, Body

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• Cellular pathology is not an end if one cannot see any alteration in the cell. Chemistry brings the clarification of living processes nearer than does anatomy. Each anatomical change must have been preceded by a chemical one.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Cells, Doe, Chemistry

  "The Scientific Basis of Medicine Annual Reviews", Vol. 1969, Athlone Press, quoting "Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift", Coper, H., Herken, H. (1963), 1969.

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• My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Oponentes

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• Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among the workers or among the privileged.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Lying, Statistics, Measurement

  "Infections and Inequalities". Book by Paul Farmer, p. 1, 1999.

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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.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Knowledge, Science, Self

  Rudolf Virchow (1958). “Disease, Life, and Man: Selected Essays”, p.69, Stanford University Press

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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.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Mean, Science, People

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• There can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Disputes, Science And Religion

  Disease, Life, and Man 'On Man'

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• The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Conocimiento, Ciencia, Límites

  "On Man". 1849.

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• Si la medicina popular diera al pueblo sabiduría además de conocimientos, sería la mejor protección para los médicos científicos y bien formados.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Sabiduría, Conocimiento, Ciencia

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• If we would serve science, we must extend her limits, not only as far as our own knowledge is concerned, but in the estimation of others.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Conocimiento, Ciencia, Límites

  Rudolf Virchow, Frank CHANCE (1860). “Cellular Pathology as based upon physiological and pathological histology. Twenty lectures delivered in ... 1858. Translated from the second edition of the original by F. Chance. With notes and numerous emendations principally from MS. notes of the author, and illustrated by ... engravings on wood.”, p.10

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• 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?

  Rudolf Virchow

  Ciencia, Hombres, Duda

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• Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Physicians, Quacks, Replaced

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