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“Man's greatness does not consist in being different from the animals that share the earth with him, but in being...conscious of things of which his environment has no inkling.”

Quote by Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald

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Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald

Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald, born on November 13, 1902, and died on July 10, 1982, was a German scholar. The details of his profession and life experience are limited. more

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