Walter Rudolf Hess Quotes


"For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism."
- Walter Rudolf Hess
(Related: Health, Man, Sickness)

"Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically in serial section."
- Walter Rudolf Hess
(Related: Deep, Information)

"At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation."
- Walter Rudolf Hess
(Related: Work, Beginning, Choice, Investigation)

"The goal of physiological research is functional nature."
- Walter Rudolf Hess
(Related: Nature, Goal, Research)

"This implies that the laws governing organic cohesion, the organization leading from the part to the whole, represent a biological uncertainty, indeed an uncertainty of the first order."
- Walter Rudolf Hess
(Related: First, Laws, Leading, Order, Uncertainty)

"The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered."
- Walter Rudolf Hess
(Related: Thought, Positive, First, Law, Obedience, Relationships)

"It must be born in mind that one does not see directly - as is the case in the exploration of the surface of the brain - where the electrodes are attacking."
- Walter Rudolf Hess
(Related: Exploration, Mind)