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Wolfgang Kohler Quotes

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

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

Wolfgang Kohler
Real, Solitude, Chimpanzees
"The Mentality of Apes". Book by Wolfgang Kohler (p. 293), 1925.

Psychology is a very unsatisfactory science.

Wolfgang Kohler
Psychology

It would be interesting to inquire how many times essential advances in science have first been made possible by the fact that the boundaries of special disciplines were not respected... Trespassing is one of the most successful techniques in science.

Wolfgang Kohler
Successful, Science, Discipline

It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between happens and is, on the one hand, and ought, on the other hand.

Wolfgang Kohler
Reality, Differences, Hands

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 time. Otherwise we should behave like boys who try to copy the imposing manners of full-grown men without understanding their raison d' être, also without seeing that in development one cannot jump over intermediate and preliminary phases.

Wolfgang Kohler
Boys, Men, Psychology
"Gestalt Psychology". Book by Wolfgang Köhler, p. 32, 1930.

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