Walter Rudolf Hess Quotes & Sayings

A recognized fact which goes back to the earliest times is that every living organism is not the sum of a multitude of unitary processes, but is, by virtue of interrelationships and of higher and lower levels of control, an unbroken unity. When research, in the efforts of bringing understanding, as a rule examines isolated processes and studies them, these must of necessity be removed from their context. In general, viewed biologically, this experimental separation involves a sacrifice. 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. — Walter Rudolf Hess

For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism. — Walter Rudolf Hess

The goal of physiological research is functional nature. — Walter Rudolf Hess

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. — Walter Rudolf Hess

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. — Walter Rudolf Hess

At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation. — Walter Rudolf Hess

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. — Walter Rudolf Hess

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. — Walter Rudolf Hess