Wolfgang Kohler

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that a chimpanzee kept in solitude is not a real chimpanzee at all.

— Wolfgang Kohler

“In his great treatise, Electricity and Magnetism, Clerk Maxwell had remarked that we are often told that in science we must, first…

— Wolfgang Kohler

It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between happens and is, on the…

— Wolfgang Kohler

It would be interesting to inquire how many times essential advances in science have first been made possible by the fact that…

— Wolfgang Kohler

“Common human experience alone is no guarantee with which we can build a science of psychology.”

— Wolfgang Köhler

Psychology is a very unsatisfactory science.

— Wolfgang Kohler

If we wish to imitate the physical sciences, we must not imitate them in their contemporary, most developed form; we must imitate…

— Wolfgang Kohler