Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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