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title: "2 Cognitive Quotes By Konrad Lorenz"
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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/konrad-lorenz/i-believe-that-both-art-and-the-human-striving-for-cognitive/)

[Konrad Lorenz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/konrad-lorenz/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/konrad-lorenz/every-mutation-through-a-new-combination-of-genetic-factors-that/)

[Konrad Lorenz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/konrad-lorenz/)

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## Other authors on Cognitive

## More by Konrad Lorenz

> [Practically all animals which move fast in a homogeneous medium have found means of giving their body a streamlined shape, thereby reducing friction to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/konrad-lorenz/practically-all-animals-which-move-fast-in-a-homogeneous-medium-have/)

[Konrad Lorenz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/konrad-lorenz/)

> [I owe undying gratitude to my patient parents.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/konrad-lorenz/i-owe-undying-gratitude-to-my-patient-parents/)

[Konrad Lorenz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/konrad-lorenz/)

> [It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/konrad-lorenz/it-is-a-good-morning-exercise-for-a-research-scientist-to-discard-a/)

[Konrad Lorenz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/konrad-lorenz/)

> ['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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/konrad-lorenz/i-don-t-need-brains-says-the-billionaire-contemptuously-i-m-brainy/)

[Konrad Lorenz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/konrad-lorenz/)

> [I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/konrad-lorenz/i-have-found-the-missing-link-between-the-higher-ape-and-civilized/)

[Konrad Lorenz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/konrad-lorenz/)

> [The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/konrad-lorenz/the-fidelity-of-a-dog-is-a-precious-gift/)

[Konrad Lorenz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/konrad-lorenz/)

> [Whenever we find, in two forms of life that are unrelated to each other, a similarity of form or of behaviour patterns which relates…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/konrad-lorenz/whenever-we-find-in-two-forms-of-life-that-are-unrelated-to-each/)

[Konrad Lorenz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/konrad-lorenz/)

> [...he who has seen the intimate beauty of nature cannot tear himself away from it again. He must become either a poet or a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/konrad-lorenz/he-who-has-seen-the-intimate-beauty-of-nature-cannot-tear-himself/)

[Konrad Lorenz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/konrad-lorenz/)

> [We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/konrad-lorenz/we-had-better-dispense-with-the-personification-of-evil-because-it/)

[Konrad Lorenz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/konrad-lorenz/)

> [If you confine yourself to this Skinnerian technique, you study nothing but the learning apparatus and you leave out everything that is different in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/konrad-lorenz/if-you-confine-yourself-to-this-skinnerian-technique-you-study/)

[Konrad Lorenz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/konrad-lorenz/)

> [All scientific knowledge to which man owes his role as master of the world arose from playful activities.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/konrad-lorenz/all-scientific-knowledge-to-which-man-owes-his-role-as-master-of-the/)

[Konrad Lorenz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/konrad-lorenz/)

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/konrad-lorenz/all-the-advantages-that-man-has-gained-from-his-ever-deepening/)

[Konrad Lorenz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/konrad-lorenz/)

> [Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/konrad-lorenz/truth-in-science-can-be-defined-as-the-working-hypothesis-best-suited/)

[Konrad Lorenz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/konrad-lorenz/)

> [“Every scientist should, after all, regard it as his duty to tell the public, in a generally intelligible way, about what he is doing”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/konrad-lorenz/every-scientist-should-after-all-regard-it-as-his-duty-to-tell-the/)

[Konrad Lorenz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/konrad-lorenz/)

> [I consider early childhood events as most essential to a man's scientific and philosophical development.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/konrad-lorenz/i-consider-early-childhood-events-as-most-essential-to-a-man-s/)

[Konrad Lorenz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/konrad-lorenz/)

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