Konrad Lorenz Quotes

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

Science, Good, Morning

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

Men, Laughing, Dogs

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.
Konrad Lorenz

Knowledge, Nothing, Everything

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

Between, Found, Missing

We do not take humor seriously enough.
Konrad Lorenz

Humor, Enough, Seriously

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

Good, Evil, Value

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

Same, Fact, Face

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

Present, Drive, Aggressive

'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.
Konrad Lorenz

Enough, Heaven, Name

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

Today, Sins, Vices

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

True, Earth, Dog

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

Best, Truth, Science

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

War, Evil, Dangerous

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Biography

Nationality: Austrian

Type: Scientist

Born: November 7, 1903

Died: February 27, 1989

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