No doubt science cannot admit ...

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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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.
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 Rudolf Virchow
The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.
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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.
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Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.
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 Rudolf Virchow
Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.
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 Rudolf Virchow