Nikolaas Tinbergen

Relatively many autists are first-born children. There is also a pretty widespread conviction that the parents of autists are somehow different -…

— Nikolaas Tinbergen

As a boy, I had two small aquaria in our backyard in which I watched, each spring, the nest building and other…

— Nikolaas Tinbergen

The majority of autists - as well as their parents - seem to be genuine victims of environmental stress.

— Nikolaas Tinbergen

I can do no more than characterise, and recommend, the Alexander treatment as an extremely sophisticated form of rehabilition, or rather of…

— Nikolaas Tinbergen

Whenever a gentle pressure is used to make a slight change in leg posture, the neck muscles react immediately. Conversely, when the…

— Nikolaas Tinbergen

I was not much interested in school, and both at secondary school and at university, I only just scraped through, with as…

— Nikolaas Tinbergen

Proper stance and movement are obviously genetically old, environment-resistant behaviours. Misuse, with all its psychosomatic or, rather, somato-psychic consequences, must therefore be…

— Nikolaas Tinbergen