Quote of the day
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Simplification is the essence of abstraction from which objective values are not necessarily eliminated.
Hans Driesch
Born: October 28, 1867
Died: April 17, 1941 (aged 73)
Bio: Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch was a German biologist and philosopher from Bad Kreuznach. He is most noted for his early experimental work in embryology and for his neo-vitalist philosophy of entelechy. He is also credited with performing the first 'cloning' of an animal in the 1880s.
Known for:
- The science and philosophy of the organism (1908)
- Die seele Als Elementarer Naturfaktor
- History and Theory of Vitalism 1914








