Konrad Lorenz
Konrad Lorenz
Konrad Zacharias Lorenzwas 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, developing an approach that began with an earlier generation, including his teacher Oskar Heinroth...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth7 November 1903
CountryAustria
games accomplishment creative
I see the creative accomplishments of which highly gifted humans are capable as special cases of the universal creative process, that game played by everyone against everyone else, from which wells up all that has never been before.
health men sick
If you confine yourself to this Skinnerian technique, you study nothing but the learning apparatus and you leave out everything that is different in octopi, crustaceans, insects and vertebrates. In other words, you leave out everything that makes a pigeon a pigeon, a rat a rat, a man a man, and, above all, a healthy man healthy and a sick man sick.
knowledge men order
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.
fun men world
All scientific knowledge to which man owes his role as master of the world arose from playful activities.
cat home animal
The cat is a wild animal that inhabits the homes of humans.
opportunity mutation information
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.
culture faces facts
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.
sight scotland people
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.
religious war evil
We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.
soul mind spirituality
The human soul is very much older than the human mind.
culture mankind collectives
More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind.
existence species
In nature we find not only that which is expedient, but also everything which is not so inexpedient as to endanger the existence of the species.
bond earth lasting ties
The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be.
brainy cries says
'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.