"The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them."
— Rudolf Virchow

January 1, 1970

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1849 (R. Virchow. Der Mensch (On Man). Berlin, 1849. English translation in: L. J. Rather, Disease, Life and Man -- Selected Essays of Rudolf Virchow, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, pp. 67–70, 1958).