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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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Rudolf Virchow
Age: 81 †
Born: 1821
Born: January 1
Died: 1902
Died: January 1
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