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Konrad Lorenz Biography

Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (German pronunciation: [ˈkɔnʁaːt ˈloːʁɛnts]; 7 November 1903 – 27 February 1989) 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, the study of animal behaviour. He developed an approach that began with an earlier generation, including his teacher Oskar Heinroth.

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The instinctive need to be the member of a closely knit group fighting for common ideals may grow so strong that it becomes inessential what these ideals are.

Common, Fighting, Groups, Knit, Strong

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

Anthropoid, Apes, Beings, Men, Missing, Science

One of the most dangerously vicious circles menacing the continued existence of all mankind arises through that grim striving for the highest possible position within the ranked order, in other words, the reckless pursuit of power which combines with an insatiable greed of neurotic proportions that the results of acquired power confer.

Circles, Confer, Menacing, Order, Power, Reckless

We do not take humor seriously enough.

Enough, Humor, Seriously, Take

Every mutation through a new combination of genetic factors that provides the organism with a new opportunity for coming to terms with the conditions of its environment signifies no more and no less than that new information about this environment has got into that organic system. Adaptation is essentially a cognitive process.

Factors, Genetic, Information, Mutation, Opportunity, Process

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

Defined, Religion, Science, Truth, Way, Working

Natural selection does not give any preference at all to anything that, in the long run, could be advantageous for the species but blindly rewards everything that, momentarily, affords greater procreative success.

Giving, Long, Natural, Rewards, Running, Selection

Visualize yourself confronted with the task of killing, one after the other, a cabbage, a fly, a fish, a lizard, a guinea pig, a cat, a dog, a monkey and a baby chimpanzee. In the unlikely case that you should experience no greater inhibitions in killing the chimpanzee than in destroying the cabbage or the fly, my advice to you is to commit suicide at your earliest possible convenience, because you are a weird monstrosity and a public danger.

Advice, Baby, Cat, Dog, Monstrosity, Suicide

Hatred of humanity and love of animals make a very bad combination.

Animal, Animals, Combination, Hatred, Humanity, Love

Nothing can better express the feelings of the scientist towards the great unity of the laws of nature than in Immanuel Kant's words: "Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing awe: the stars above me and the moral law within me. ". . . Would he, who did not yet know of the evolution of the world of organisms, be shocked that we consider the moral law within us not as something given, a priori, but as something which has arisen by natural evolution, just like the laws of the heavens?

Law, Nature, Nothing, Stars, Two, Words

I would rather have a Scot come from Scotland togovern the people of this kingdom well and justly, than that you should govern them ill in the sight of all the world.

Come, People, Scotland, Sight

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

Adaptive, Man, Men, Primitive Man, Vices

The human mind, in taking us down the path of technocracy, has become the adversary of life itself and collaterally the adversary of the human soul.

Human, Life, Mind, Path, Soul, Taking

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

Art, Human, Science, Scientific, Truth, Universal

I am convinced that of all the people on the two sides of the great curtain, the space pilots are the least likely to hate each other. Like the late Erich von Holst, I believe that the tremendous and otherwise not quite explicable public interest in space flight arises from the subconscious realization that it helps to preserve peace. May it continue to do so!

Believe, Hate, Interest, Likely, Subconscious, Two

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

Ape, Links, Man, Men, Missing

. . . he who has seen the intimate beauty of nature cannot tear himself away from it again. He must become either a poet or a naturalist and, if his eyes are keen and his powers of observation sharp enough, he may well become both.

Eye, Intimate, Keen, Nature, Poet, Tears

The appeal of the cat lies in the very fact that she has formed no close bond with [man], that she has the uncompromising independence of a tiger or a leopard while she is hunting in his stables and barns: that she still remains mysterious and remote when she is rubbing herself gently against the legs of her mistress or purring contentedly in front of the fire.

Cat, Contentedly, Hunting, Leopard, Lying, Tiger

The human soul is very much older than the human mind.

Human, Mind, Older, Soul, Spirituality

It ought to be realized by all dog owners that obesity shortens a dog's life quite considerably, a life which is much too short anyhow.

Dog, Obesity, Ought, Owners, Quite, Too Short

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