We are sorry to confess that biological hypotheses have not yet completely got out of the second phase, and that ghost of ‘vital force’ still haunts many wise heads. — Ludwig Buchner Copy Share Image
What we still designate as chance, merely depends on a concatenation of circumstances, the internal connection and final causes of which we have as… — Ludwig Buchner Copy Share Image
We are sorry to confess that biological hypotheses have not yet completely got out of the second phase, and that ghost of ‘vital force’… — Ludwig Buchner Copy Share Image
A creative force that either creates itself or arises from nothing, and which is a causa sui (its own cause), exactly resembles Baron Munchhausen,… — Ludwig Buchner Copy Share Image
The universe, as we see it, is the result of regularly working forces, having a causal connection with each other and therefore capable of… — Ludwig Buchner Copy Share Image
The useless search of philosophers for a cause of the universe is a regressus in infinitum (a stepping backwards into the infinite) and resembles… — Ludwig Buchner Copy Share Image
Ohne Phosphor, Kein Gedanke. Without phosphorus there would be no thoughts. — Ludwig Buchner Copy Share Image
For the thinker the world is a thought; for the wit, an image; for the enthusiast, a dream; for the inquirer, truth. — Ludwig Buchner Copy Share Image
