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The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.
Rudolf VirchowAbout author
- Author's profession: Politician
- Nationality: deutsch
- Born: October 13, 1821
- Died: September 5, 1902
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The wallpaper with which the men of science have covered the world of reality is falling to tatters. The grand whorehouse which they have made of life requires no decoration; it is essential that only the drains function adequately. Beauty, that feline beauty that has us by the balls in America, is finished.
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