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“All scientific knowledge to which man owes his role as master of the world arose from playful activities.” quote by Konrad Lorenz — Download Open image

“All scientific knowledge to which man owes his role as master of the world arose from playful activities.”

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Practically all animals which move fast in a homogeneous medium have found means of giving their body a streamlined shape, thereby reducing friction to…

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I owe undying gratitude to my patient parents.

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It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

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'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…

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I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.

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The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift.

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Whenever we find, in two forms of life that are unrelated to each other, a similarity of form or of behaviour patterns which relates…

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...he who has seen the intimate beauty of nature cannot tear himself away from it again. He must become either a poet or a…

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We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.

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If you confine yourself to this Skinnerian technique, you study nothing but the learning apparatus and you leave out everything that is different in…

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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,…

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Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

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