Driesch

British  

/ driːʃ /

noun

1. Hans Adolf Eduard (hans ˈaːdɔlf ˈɛdʊɑːd). 1867–1941, German zoologist and embryologist

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Example Sentences

She is the stepdaughter of Mary Driesch and Ellen Weeden.

From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2018

And Driesch holds it to be impossible to distribute a complicated tectonic among the elements of an equipotential system.

From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf

It is the theory that there is some other element—call it entelechy with Driesch, or call it what you like—in living things than those elements known to chemistry and physics.

From Science and Morals and Other Essays by Windle, Bertram Coghill Alan, Sir

Driesch calls it entelechy, i.e. "purposiveness," and he also speaks of psychoids, i.e. "primitive minds."

From Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson by Hardwick, John Charlton

But the most essential vital problems, the development of form, regeneration, and inheritance, to which Driesch gives the fullest consideration, are all too briefly treated.

From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf