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For if medicine is really to accomplish its great task, it must intervene in political and social life. It must point out the hindrances that impede the normal social functioning of vital processes, and effect their removal.

— 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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