All living beings have received their weapons through the same process of evolution that moulded their impulses and inhibitions; for the structural plan of the body and the system of behaviour of a species are parts of the same whole....… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
The distance at which all shooting weapons take effect screens the killer against the stimulus sensation which would otherwise activate his killing inhibitions. The deep, emotional layers of our personality simply do not register the fact that the crooking of… — 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
