Walter Rudolf Hess Quotes

At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation.
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.
For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism.
In fact, quantitative findings of any material and energy changes preserve their full context only through their being seen and understood as parts of a natural order.
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.
The goal of physiological research is functional nature.
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.
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.

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Walter Rudolf Hess
Profession
Scientist
BirthDate
17 March, 1881
DeathDate
12 August, 1973
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Switzerland
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