Wilhelm Wundt Quotes about Science

Our mind is so fortunately equipped, that it brings us the most important bases for our thoughts without our having the least knowledge of this work of elaboration. Only the results of it become unconscious.

Our mind is so fortunately equipped, that it brings us the most important bases for our thoughts without our having the least knowledge of this work of elaboration. Only the results of it become unconscious.

Wilhelm Wundt

Science, Mind, Important

From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.

Wilhelm Wundt

Science, Mind, Hypothesis

Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

The animal kingdom exhibits a series of mental developments which may be regarded as antecedents to the mental development of man, for the mental life of animals shows itself to be throughout, in its elements and in the general laws governing the combination of the elements, the same as the mental life of man.

Wilhelm Wundt

Science, Animal, Men

Wilhelm Max Wundt (1907). “Outlines of Psychology”

In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive discrimination of the animal and vegetative functions, and a consequent differentiation of these two great provinces into their separate departments.

Wilhelm Wundt

Science, Animal, Hands

Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects.

Wilhelm Wundt

Science, Psychology, Analysis

Wilhelm Max Wundt (1904). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner most important stages in the succession of vital phenomena.

Wilhelm Wundt

Science, Mind, Important

"Principles of Physiological Psychology". Book by Wilhelm Wundt, translated by Edward B. Titchener, p. 22, 1904.