Consciousness Quote by Rudolf Virchow

“The task of science, therefore, is not to attack the objects of faith, but to establish the limits beyond which knowledge cannot go and found a unified self-consciousness within these limits.” quote by Rudolf Virchow — Download Open image

“The task of science, therefore, is not to attack the objects of faith, but to establish the limits beyond which knowledge cannot go and found a unified self-consciousness within these limits.”

Rudolf Virchow

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