Childhood Quote by Konrad Lorenz

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

I owe undying gratitude to my patient parents.

— Konrad Lorenz

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

'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

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

— Konrad Lorenz

The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift.

— Konrad Lorenz

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

...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

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

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

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

— Konrad Lorenz

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