German Physiologist Quotes

Wilhelm Wundt

Hermann von Helmholtz

Johannes Peter Müller

Theodor Schwann

Franz Joseph Gall

Carl Ludwig

Adolf Eugen Fick

Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts.

Hermann von Helmholtz

The fate of the physiology of the brain is independent of the truth and falsity of my assertions relative to the laws of the organization of the nervous system, in general, and of the brain in particular, just as the knowledge of the functions of a sense is independent of the knowledge of the structure of its apparatus.

Franz Joseph Gall

Physiology, in its analysis of the physiological functions of the sense organs, must use the results of subjective observation of sensations; and psychology, in its turn, needs to know the physiological aspects of sensory function, in order rightly to appreciate the psychological.

Teleology is a lady without whom no biologist can live. Yet he is ashamed to show himself with her in public.

Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke

The elementary parts of all tissues are formed of cells in an analogous, though very diversified manner, so that it may be asserted, that there is one universal principle of development for the elementary parts of organisms, however different, and that this principle is the formation of cells.

Theodor Schwann

A vital phenomenon can only be regarded as explained if it has been proven that it appears as the result of the material components of living organisms interacting according to the laws which those same components follow in their interactions outside of living systems.

Adolf Eugen Fick

Observation is simple, indefatigable, industrious, upright, without any preconceived opinion. Experiment is artificial, impatient, busy, digressive, passionate, unreliable.

Johannes Peter Müller

We have in the spinal cord the antetype (Vorbild) and the foundation for the entire structure of the brain.

Friedrich Arnold

Scientific physiology has the task of determining the functions of the animal body and deriving them as a necessary consequence from its elementary conditions.

I think that the more thoroughly and conscientiously we endeavor to study biological problems, the more we are convinced that even those processes which we have already regarded as explicable by chemical and physical laws are in reality infinitely more complex, and at present defy any attempt at a mechanical explanation.

Gustav von Bunge

Without hypothesis there can be no progress in knowledge.

Statistics manufacture certainty out of random events, just as they ensure the profits of Monte Carlo, provided the roulette wheels run truly.

Karl Gotthelf Lehmann