Quotes by Konrad Lorenz

About Konrad Lorenz:

Konrad Zacharias Lorenz 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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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.

Konrad Lorenz

Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is.

Konrad Lorenz

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

Konrad Lorenz

'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer.

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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.

Konrad Lorenz

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

Konrad Lorenz

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

Konrad Lorenz

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

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

Konrad Lorenz

More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind.

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There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog

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Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who know more and more about less and less, until they know everything about nothing.

Konrad Lorenz

Puesto que el que contempla con sus ojos la belleza, no es ya tributario de la muerte, como dice Platen, sino de la Naturaleza, cuya belleza ha comprendido. Y si sus ojos sirven realmente para ver, llegará a ser, inexcusablemente, naturalista.

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¡Cuán pobre e interiormente mutilado nos resulta un mono, un prosimio o un gran papagayo, acostumbrado a vivir en una jaula, y cómo contrasta con la increíble movilidad, diversión e interés del mismo animal cuando goza de absoluta libertad!

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Pero no se comprende tan claramente cómo semejante ritualización es en el hombre fruto de la transmisión histórica de un pueblo, mientras que en el animal representa un desarrollo filogenético de formas de movimiento innatas y hereditarias.

Konrad Lorenz

Cuando uno presta atención a las reacciones del público que visita un parque zoológico, advierte el despilfarro de una piedad sentimental, en la conmiseración que despiertan animales que se encuentran perfectamente, mientras que casi nadie se da ...

Konrad Lorenz

No existe ningún buen biólogo, cuyos trabajos fueran coronados por el éxito, que no haya sido llevado hacia su profesión por aquel placer interior que deriva de contemplar las bellezas de las criaturas vivas, y que al mismo tiempo no sienta aumen...

Konrad Lorenz

We do not take humor seriously enough.

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

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Author Bio

  • NameKonrad Lorenz
  • DescriptionAustrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist
  • BornNovember 7, 1903
  • DiedFebruary 27, 1989
  • CountryAustria
  • ProfessionMilitary Physician; Ethologist; Ornithologist
  • AwardsNobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine; Prix Mondial Cino Del Duca; Grand Order Of Merit With Star And Shoulder-Sash; Order Of Merit For Arts And Science; Kalinga Prize