Konrad Lorenz Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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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“The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being.”
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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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“The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift.”
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“The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it.”
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“I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.”
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“There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog”
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“The neuro-physiological organization which we call instinct functions in a blindly mechanical way, particularly apparent when its function goes wrong.”
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“I believe-and human psychologists, particularly psychoanalysts should test this-that present-day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive. It is more than probable that the evil effects of the human aggressive drives, explained by Sigmund Freud as the results of a special death wish, simply derive from the fact that in prehistoric times intra-specific selection bred into man a measure of aggression drive for which in the social order today he finds no adequate outlet.”
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“More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind.”
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“Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is.”
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“The scientist knows very well that he is approaching ultimate truth only in an asymptotic curve and is barred from ever reaching it; but at the same time he is proudly aware of being indeed able to determine whether a statement is a nearer or a less near approach to the truth.”
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“In nature we find not only that which is expedient, but also everything which is not so inexpedient as to endanger the existence of the species.”
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“Man has been driven out of the paradise in which he could trust his instincts.”
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“Humor and knowledge are the two great hopes of our culture.”
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“Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.”
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“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 into contact with nature, threatens to kill the natural system in which and from which he live.”
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“Hatred of humanity and love of animals make a very bad combination.”
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“One of the most dangerously vicious circles menacing the continued existence of all mankind arises through that grim striving for the highest possible position within the ranked order, in other words, the reckless pursuit of power which combines with an insatiable greed of neurotic proportions that the results of acquired power confer.”
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“The rushed existence into which industrialized, commercialized man has precipitated himself is actually a good example of an inexpedient development caused entirely by competition between members of the same species. Human beings of today are attacked by so-called manager diseases, high blood pressure, renal atrophy, gastric ulcers, and torturing neuroses: they succumb to barbarism because they have no more time for cultural interests.”
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“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 ***** he would become if he did.”
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“Natural selection does not give any preference at all to anything that, in the long run, could be advantageous for the species but blindly rewards everything that, momentarily, affords greater procreative success.”
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“The human mind, in taking us down the path of technocracy, has become the adversary of life itself and collaterally the adversary of the human soul.”
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“Every mutation through a new combination of genetic factors that provides the organism with a new opportunity for coming to terms with the conditions of its environment signifies no more and no less than that new information about this environment has got into that organic system. Adaptation is essentially a cognitive process.”
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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, all of which should seem to alleviate human suffering... tends instead to favor humanity's destruction.”
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“One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.”
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“The cat is a wild animal that inhabits the homes of humans.”
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“I would rather have a Scot come from Scotland togovern the people of this kingdom well and justly, than that you should govern them ill in the sight of all the world.”
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“All too willingly man sees himself as the centre of the universe, as something not belonging to the rest of nature but standing apart as a different and higher being. Many people cling to this error and remain deaf to the wisest command ever given by a sage, the famous "Know thyself" inscribed in the temple of Delphi.”
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“The attitude of the true scientist towards the real limits of human understanding was unforgettably impressed on me in early youth by the obviously unpremeditated words of a great biologist; Alfred Kuhn finished a lecture to the Austrian Academy of Science with Goethe 's words, "It is the greatest joy of the man of thought to have explored the explorable and then calmly to revere the inexplorable." After the last word he hesitated, raised his hand in repudiation and cried, above the applause, "No, not calmly, gentlemen; not calmly !”
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