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Man Quotes by Konrad Lorenz
- All scientific knowledge to which man owes his role as master of the world arose from playful activities.
- If you confine yourself to this Skinnerian technique, you study nothing but the learning apparatus and you leave out everything that is different in octopi,…
- I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive
- Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man
- Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The…
- I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.
- Man has been driven out of the paradise in which he could trust his instincts.
- Most people have forgotten how to live with living creatures, with living systems and that, in turn, is the reason why man, whenever he comes…
- Man appears to be the missing link between anthropoid apes and human beings.
- A man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small danger of succumbing to flattering delusions about himself, because he cannot help perceiving what a pompous…
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