Quotes by Konrad Lorenz

“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 every...”

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

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

“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.”

“Every danger loses some of its terror once its causes are understood.”

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

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

“'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.”

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

“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 kno...”

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

“I believe I've found the missing link between animal and civilized man. It is us.”

“We do not take humor seriously enough.”

“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.”

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

“The same individual geese on which we conducted these experiments, first aroused my interest in the process of domestication. They were F1 hybrids of wild Greylags and domestic geese and they showe...”

“All too willingly man sees himself as the centre of the universe, as something not belonging to the rest of nature but standing apart as a different and higher being. Many people cling to this erro...”

“The scientist who considers himself absolutely objective and believes that he can free himself from the compulsion of the merely subjective should try — only in imagination of course — to kill in s...”

“We are the highest achievement reached so far by the great constructors of evolution. We are their latest but certainly not their last word. The scientist must not regard anything as absolute, not ...”