Cases Quote by Max Wertheimer

There are wholes, the behavior of which is not determined by that of their individual elements, but where the part-processes are themselves determined by…

— Max Wertheimer

Fortunately I experienced Max Wertheimer's teaching in Berlin and collaborated for over a decade with Wolfgang Köhler. I need not emphasize my debts to…

— Kurt Lewin

Since nothing can exist that does not fulfil the conditions which render its existence possible, the different parts each being must be co-ordinated in…

— Georges Cuvier

“In the Gestalt theory of perception this is known as the figure/ground relationship. This theory asserts, in brief, that no figure is ever perceived…

— Alan Wilson Watts

When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there results shapeliness.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Pieces" almost always appear 'as parts' in whole processes. ... To sever a "'part" from the organized whole in which it occurs-whether it itself…

— Max Wertheimer

The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated…

— David Hilbert

“If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only one fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all…

— Henry David Thoreau

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far…

— Richard P. Feynman

One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of…

— David Bohm

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the…

— Albert Einstein

“Science is progressive and self-correcting: no significantly erroneous conclusions or false hypotheses can be sustained for long, as newer observations will ultimately knock down…

— Francis S. Collins