No doubt science cannot admit of compromises, and can only bring out the complete truth. Hence there must … - Rudolf Virchow

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Have you considered that the Bible, like all religious doctrine, may be allegorical and symbolic, to direct us toward one holy entity of love, as opposed to a simplistic litiginous text to direct the behavior of human beings?

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?

Admit, Attack, Doubt, Man, Men, Science

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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.

Fall, Jurisdiction, Mean, Politics, Practical, Science

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

Community, Doe, Way, Students, Exist, Making

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.

Events, Forget, Happenings, Humanity, Shame

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

Physicians, Problem, Poor, Attorneys, Social

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

Animal, Medicine, Lines, Dividing, Human