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"25 Konrad Lorenz Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 7 November 1903. Died: 27 February 1989 | Zoologist | Ethologist | Ornithologist |

The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift.

Fidelity Dog Precious Gift
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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.

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

Bond Dog Earth Ever
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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.

Before Breakfast Day Discard
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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.

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

Aggressive Believe Civilized Day
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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.

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

Definition Evil Good Perceive
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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.

Because Better Dangerous Dispense
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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.

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

Ape Between Civilized Found
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Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.

Barking Bite Dogs Ever
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We do not take humor seriously enough.

Enough Humor Seriously Take
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'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.

Answer Billionaire Brains Brainy
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I consider early childhood events as most essential to a man's scientific and philosophical development.

Childhood Consider Development Early
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I grew up in the large house and the larger garden of my parents in Altenberg. They were supremely tolerant of my inordinate love for animals.

Animals Garden Grew House
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From a neighbour, I got a one-day-old duckling and found, to my intense joy, that it transferred its following response to my person. At the same time, my interest became irreversibly fixated on water fowl, and I became an expert on their behaviour even as a child.

Became Behaviour Child Even
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When I was about ten, I discovered evolution by reading a book by Wilhelm Boelsche and seeing a picture of Archaeopteryx.

About Book Discovered Evolution
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In the course of evolution, it constantly happens that, independently of each other, two different forms of life take similar, parallel paths in adapting themselves to the same external circumstances.

Adapting Circumstances Constantly Course
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Practically all animals which move fast in a homogeneous medium have found means of giving their body a streamlined shape, thereby reducing friction to a minimum.

Animals Body Fast Found
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Whenever we find, in two forms of life that are unrelated to each other, a similarity of form or of behaviour patterns which relates to more than a few minor details, we assume it to be caused by parallel adaptation to the same life-preserving function.

Adaptation Assume Behaviour Caused
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Ethologists are often accused of drawing false analogies between animal and human behaviour. However, no such thing as a false analogy exists: an analogy can be more or less detailed and, hence, more or less informative.

Accused Analogy Animal Behaviour
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There is indeed the possibility that the evolutionary process has, in gray antiquity, bred into us an excess of aggression.
Aggression Antiquity Bred Evolutionary
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I owe undying gratitude to my patient parents.
Gratitude Owe Parents Patient
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The father-mother family with two children isolated in a city flat is already insufficient.
Children City Family Flat
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Konrad Lorenz Quotes & Sayings