Konrad Lorenz Quotes

• Man appears to be the missing link between anthropoid apes and human beings.

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• The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it.

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  Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.

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• It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

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• We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.

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• We do not take humor seriously enough.

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• Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

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• The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be.

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• Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man.

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• I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.

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• I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive.

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• Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.

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• Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value.

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• Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

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Konrad Lorenz (14)

Birth:	7th November, 1903
Death:	27th February, 1989
Nationality:	Austrian
Profession:	Ethologist, Ornithologist, Zoologist

About

Konrad Zacharias Lorenz was an Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch. He is often regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology, developing an approach that began with an earlier generation, including his teacher Oskar Heinroth.

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