Quotes About Wilhelm

Wilhelm Johannsen, self-consciously invented the word gene.

Whether that coherence obtains universally is a question that need not be answered here since only those parts where the coherence has actually been found become part of Science.

I don't say that bodies like flint, which are commonly called inanimate, have perceptions and appetition; rather they have something of that sort in them, as worms are in cheese.

God's relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.

If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.

He was the more moderate kind of nationalist. He did not sport a Kaiser Wilhelm mustache or excel at massacring Armenian civilians.

However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century.

If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.

He adopted it. The child became one of just 949 known survivors of the greatest maritime disaster in history, its 7,000 dead far outstripping those of the Titanic, Lusitania, Laconia. Yet, amid global tragedy on the scale of 1945, the horrors of the Wilhelm Gustloff remain known only to some Germans and a few historians.