Rudolf Virchow Quote

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

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.)

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

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

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

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