Walter Rudolf Hess Quotes

Switzerland, Physician
March 17, 1881 – August, 12, 1973.

Walter Rudolf Hess (March 17, 1881 – August 12, 1973) was a Swiss physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1949 for mapping the areas of the brain involved in the control of internal organs. He shared the prize with Egas Moniz.

Also known as Ophthalmologist, Neuroscientist, University Teacher, Surgeon

The goal of physiological research is functional nature.

Walter Rudolf Hess
- Nature
- Goal
- Research
This implies that the laws governing organic cohesion, the organization leading from the part to the whole, represent a biological uncertainty, indeed an uncertainty of the first order.

Walter Rudolf Hess
- Organization
- Uncertainty

For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism.

Walter Rudolf Hess
- Man
- Health
- Sickness
At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation.

Walter Rudolf Hess
- Work
- Beginning
- Choice
In fact, quantitative findings of any material and energy changes preserve their full context only through their being seen and understood as parts of a natural order.

Walter Rudolf Hess
- Energy
- Changes
- Natural
The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.

Walter Rudolf Hess
- Law
- Positive
- Thought
Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically in serial section.

Walter Rudolf Hess
- Brain
- Deep
- Information
It must be born in mind that one does not see directly - as is the case in the exploration of the surface of the brain - where the electrodes are attacking.

Walter Rudolf Hess
- Mind
- Brain
- Exploration