“Science is rooted in the will to truth. With the will to truth it stands or falls. Lower the standard even slightly and science becomes diseased at the core. Not only science, but man. The will to truth, pure and unadulterated, is among the essential conditions of his existence; if the standard is compromised he easily becomes a kind of tragic caricature of himself.” IfsMenKindScienceFallExistenceConditionsPureEssentialsStandardsAccountsCoreTragicRootedCaricaturesDiseased Book:On Perceived Motion and Figural Organization Source: On Perceived Motion and Figural Organization
“Truth and falsity, indeed understanding, is not necessarily something purely intellectual, remote from feelings and attitudes. ... It is in the total conduct of men rather than in their statements that truth or falsehood lives, more in what a man does, in his real reaction to other men and to things, in his will to do them justice, to live at one with them. Here lies the inner connection between truth and justice. In the realm of behavior and action, the problem recurs as to the difference between piece and part.” MenLifeDoeRealFeelingsProblemActionScienceLyingUnderstandingDifferencesJusticeAttitudePiecesBehaviorIntellectualConnectionsReactionsStatementsRealmsFalsehoodFalsityTruth And Justice Author:Max Wertheimer
“The basic thesis of gestalt theory might be formulated thus: there are contexts in which what is happening in the whole cannot be deduced from the characteristics of the separate pieces, but conversely; what happens to a part of the whole is, in clearcut cases, determined by the laws of the inner structure of its whole.” WholeMightHappensLawScienceCasesPiecesTheoryHappeningsStructureDeterminedCharacteristicsThesisGestalt Author:Max Wertheimer
“"Pieces" almost always appear 'as parts' in whole processes. ... To sever a "'part" from the organized whole in which it occurs-whether it itself be a subsidiary whole or an "element"-is a very real process usually involving alterations in that "part". Modifications of a part frequently involve changes elsewhere in the whole itself. Nor is the nature of these alterations arbitrary, for they too are determined by whole-conditions.” RealWholeScienceProcessNatureChangePiecesConditionsElementsDeterminedOrganizedElsewhereArbitraryInvolvingAlterationsModification Author:Max Wertheimer
“Thinking consists in envisaging, realizing structural features and structural requirements; proceeding in accordance with, and determined by, these requirements; thereby changing the situation in the direction of structural improvements.” ThinkingScienceRealizingSituationDeterminedImprovementFeaturesRequirementsProceeding Author:Max Wertheimer
