Man has been driven out of the paradise in which he could trust his instincts. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
Barking dogs may occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot! — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
Just thinking that my dog loves me more than I love him, I feel shame. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
Few animals display their mood via facial expressions as distinctly as cats. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
Practically all animals which move fast in a homogeneous medium have found means of giving their body a streamlined shape, thereby reducing… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
It ought to be realized by all dog owners that obesity shortens a dog's life quite considerably, a life which is much… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
“The missing link between animals and the real human being is most likely ourselves.” — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
I grew up in the large house and the larger garden of my parents in Altenberg. They were supremely tolerant of my… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
Most people have forgotten how to live with living creatures, with living systems and that, in turn, is the reason why man,… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
“Human aggression is instinctual. Humans have not evolved any ritualised aggression-inhibiting mechanisms to ensure the survival of the species. For this reason… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
Ethologists are often accused of drawing false analogies between animal and human behaviour. However, no such thing as a false analogy exists:… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
If you confine yourself to this Skinnerian technique, you study nothing but the learning apparatus and you leave out everything that is… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
The bond with a dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth can ever be. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
Practically all animals which move fast in a homogeneous medium have found means of giving their body a streamlined shape, thereby reducing friction to… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share
'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… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share
I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share
Whenever we find, in two forms of life that are unrelated to each other, a similarity of form or of behaviour patterns which relates… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share
...he who has seen the intimate beauty of nature cannot tear himself away from it again. He must become either a poet or a… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share
We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share
If you confine yourself to this Skinnerian technique, you study nothing but the learning apparatus and you leave out everything that is different in… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share
All scientific knowledge to which man owes his role as master of the world arose from playful activities. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share
All the advantages that man has gained from his ever-deepening understanding of the natural world that surrounds him, his technological, chemical and medical progress,… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share
Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share
“Every scientist should, after all, regard it as his duty to tell the public, in a generally intelligible way, about what he is doing” — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share
I consider early childhood events as most essential to a man's scientific and philosophical development. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share
