It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him… — 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
All scientific knowledge to which man owes his role as master of the world arose from playful activities. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
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 Image
“Every scientist should, after all, regard it as his duty to tell the public, in a generally intelligible way, about what he… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
Man appears to be the missing link between anthropoid apes and human beings. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
In science, new ideas are at first completely neglected, later fiercely attacked, and finally regarded as well known. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
Nothing can better express the feelings of the scientist towards the great unity of the laws of nature than in Immanuel Kant's… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
The scientist knows very well that he is approaching ultimate truth only in an asymptotic curve and is barred from ever reaching… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
Visualize yourself confronted with the task of killing, one after the other, a cabbage, a fly, a fish, a lizard, a guinea… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
In nature we find not only that which is expedient, but also everything which is not so inexpedient as to endanger the… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
The attitude of the true scientist towards the real limits of human understanding was unforgettably impressed on me in early youth by… — 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