All living beings have received their weapons through the same process of evolution that moulded their impulses and inhibitions; for the structural… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
The rushed existence into which industrialized, commercialized man has precipitated himself is actually a good example of an inexpedient development caused entirely… — 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
Natural selection does not give any preference at all to anything that, in the long run, could be advantageous for the species… — 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
