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
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Hatred of humanity and love of animals make a very bad combination.
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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
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I believe that both art and the human striving for cognitive comprehension are manifest forms of the grand game in which nothing more is stipulated than the game's rules; both art and actively solicited perceptions are but special cases of the recurring creative act to which we owe our existence.
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Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is.