Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow Quotes

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

I don't get asked a lot of questions about science and the Bible, for example. Probably people just know I'm not very smart and I don't have an answer to those anyway.

The one thing we do not know is the limit of the knowable.

My laboratory is like a church because it is where I figure out what I believe.

Science is the natural ally of religion.

I believe that the more thoroughly science is studied, the further does it take us from anything comparable to atheism.

Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.

The scientist is not much given to talking of the riddle of the universe. "Riddle" is not a scientific term. The conception of a riddle is "something which can he solved." And hence the scientist does not use that popular phrase. We don't know the why of anything. On that matter we are no further advanced than was the cavedweller. The scientist is contented if he can contribute something toward the knowledge of what is and how it is.

The scientist knows very well that he is approaching ultimate truth only in an asymptotic curve and is barred from ever reaching it; but at the same time he is proudly aware of being indeed able to determine whether a statement is a nearer or a less near approach to the truth.

Faith is the enemy of discovery.

What science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.

Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.

Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.

If you are in the camp I am, one place where science and faith could touch each other is in the investigation of supposedly miraculous events.

God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed divine pity, he does.

Although I know of no reference to Christ ever commenting on scientific work, I do know that He said, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." Thus I am certain that, were He among us today, Christ would encourage scientific research as modern man's most noble striving to comprehend and admire His Father's handiwork. The universe as revealed through scientific inquiry is the living witness that God has indeed been at work.

The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place, because, such as it is, it is better than nothing.

To me, the right approach is to say we are profoundly ignorant of these matters. We need to work on them. But to suddenly say the answer is God - it's that that seems to me to close off the discussion.

The scientist knows that the ultimate of everything is unknowable. No matter What subject you take, the current theory of it if carried to the ultimate becomes ridiculous. Time and space are excellent examples of this.

A scientific approach means knowing what one knows and what one doesn't. Absolute or complete knowledge is unscientific.

For nothing ought to be posited without a reason given, unless it is self-evident (literally, known through itself) or known by experience or proved by the authority of Sacred Scripture.

Scientists ofttimes have the greatest faith in a higher power. The more they dig into, establish facts and figures, the more they marvel about the mystery of it all.

Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.

Religion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same something.

In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender