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
Man has been driven out of the paradise in which he could trust his instincts. — 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
Few animals display their mood via facial expressions as distinctly as cats. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
'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 Image
I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
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 Image
...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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
All scientific knowledge to which man owes his role as master of the world arose from playful activities. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
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 Image