Quote of the day
The first duty towards children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.
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