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At the present time it is of course quite customary for physicists to trespass on chemical ground, for mathematicians to do excellent work in physics, and for physicists to develop new mathematical procedures... Trespassing is one of the most successful techniques in science.

— Wolfgang Köhler

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At a given time some concrete forms are simply there in vision, not less than colors and brightnesses.

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

How ‘real’ it is one feels when trying to form other groups…Most people will never get this other grouping as clear, stable, and optically real as the former one.

I do not deny that objective experience is imbued with acquired meaning in many respects... Probably no experience escapes from the influence of meaning.

Physics is becoming the study of organization. In this way ... it will converge with biology and psychology.

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