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Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.

— 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.

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

If there is real love, it is not difficult to exercise tolerance, for tolerance is the daughter of love -- it is the truly Christian trait, which, of course, Christians of today do not practice.

Mass disease means society is out of joint.

The scientific question is the logical hypothesis which from a known law further proceeds by analogy and induction, the answer gives the experiment, which is prescribed in the question itself.

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Thomas Babington Macaulay History of England (1849)

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