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“If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians.”

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Rudolf Virchow

German physician and one of the founders of cellular pathology, known as one of the greatest scientists in the history of medicine. He proposed the basic principles of cellular pathology, which had a profound impact on the development of modern medicine. more

“If the question were, "What ought to be the next objective in science?" my answer would be the teaching of science to the young, so that when the whole population grew up there would be a far more general background of common sense, based on a knowledge of the real meaning of the scientific method of discovering truth.”

Ifs Real Whole Would Be Young Science Next Answers Common Knowledge Teaching Grew Ought Grew Up Accounts Method Population Backgrounds Objectives Common Sense Discovering Scientific Method

Author:Elihu Thomson

“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.”

Ifs Knows Science Knowledge Limits Concerned Accounts Estimation

Book: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.

Source: 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.

“In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.”

Knows Science Asks Wish Knowledge Examination

Book:Laughter from a Cloud

Source: Laughter from a Cloud

“In order to survive, an animal must be born into a favoring or at least tolerant environment. Similarly, in order to achieve preservation and recognition, a specimen of fossil man must be discovered in intelligence, attested by scientific knowledge, and interpreted by evolutionary experience. These rigorous prerequisites have undoubtedly caused many still-births in human palaeontology and are partly responsible for the high infant mortality of discoveries of geologically ancient man.”