If we wish to imitate the physical sciences, we must not imitate them in their contemporary, most developed form; we must imitate them in their historical youth, when their state of development was comparable to our own at the present… — Wolfgang Kohler Copy Share Image
It is hardly an exaggeration to say that a chimpanzee kept in solitude is not a real chimpanzee at all. — Wolfgang Kohler Copy Share Image
“In his great treatise, Electricity and Magnetism, Clerk Maxwell had remarked that we are often told that in science we must, first of all, investigate the properties of very small local places one after another, and only when this has been done can we permit ourselves to consider how more complicated situations result from what we have found in those… — Wolfgang Kohler Copy Share
It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between happens and is, on the one hand,… — Wolfgang Kohler Copy Share Image
It would be interesting to inquire how many times essential advances in science have first been made possible by the fact that the boundaries… — Wolfgang Kohler Copy Share Image
“Common human experience alone is no guarantee with which we can build a science of psychology.” — Wolfgang Köhler Copy Share Image
If we wish to imitate the physical sciences, we must not imitate them in their contemporary, most developed form; we must imitate them in… — Wolfgang Kohler Copy Share Image
