Austrian - Scientist | November 7, 1903 - February 27, 1989
The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be.
Konrad Lorenz
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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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We do not take humor seriously enough.
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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 to more than a few minor details, we assume it to be caused by parallel adaptation to the same life-preserving function.
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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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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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Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.
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I consider early childhood events as most essential to a man's scientific and philosophical development.
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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 a minimum.
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There is indeed the possibility that the evolutionary process has, in gray antiquity, bred into us an excess of aggression.
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I owe undying gratitude to my patient parents.
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I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive.
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