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Victoria C. Woodhull: “Religion belongs to the unknowable; science deals with the knowable, which is the manifestation of the unknowable.”

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Religion belongs to the unknowable; science deals with the knowable, which is the manifestation of the unknowable.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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Woodhull contrasts religion and science, highlighting their different realms of understanding.

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