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
friendship dog broken
There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog
behaviour body adequate
All living beings have received their weapons through the same process of evolution that moulded their impulses and inhibitions; for the structural plan of the body and the system of behaviour of a species are parts of the same whole.... Wordsworth is right: there is only one being in possession of weapons which do not grow on his body and of whose working plan, therefore, the instincts of his species know nothing and in the usage of which he has no correspondingly adequate inhibition.
humor two culture
Humor and knowledge are the two great hopes of our culture.
nature eye tears
...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.
soul mind path
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.
nature men paradise
Man has been driven out of the paradise in which he could trust his instincts.
humor enough
We do not take humor seriously enough.
cat animal expression
Few animals display their mood via facial expressions as distinctly as cats.
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.
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.