Life thus forms a long, unbroken chain of generations, in which the child becomes the mother, and the effect becomes the cause.


'On the Mechanistic Interpretation of Life' (1858), in Disease, Life, and Man: Selected Essays by Rudolf Virchow, trans. Lelland J. Rather (1958)

Rudolf Virchow Quotes

Life thus forms a long, unbroken chain of generations, in which the child becomes the mother, and the effect becomes the cause.

Life thus forms a long, unbroken chain of generations, in which the child becomes the mother, and the effect becomes the cause.

Life thus forms a long, unbroken chain of generations, in which the child becomes the mother, and the effect becomes the cause.

Life thus forms a long, unbroken chain of generations, in which the child becomes the mother, and the effect becomes the cause.