Wilhelm Ostwald Quotes

We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions.

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• We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions.

  

  Wilhelm Ostwald
  • Form
  • Conditions
  • Biology