Konrad Lorenz
Konrad Lorenz
Konrad Zacharias Lorenzwas an Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch. He is often regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology, developing an approach that began with an earlier generation, including his teacher Oskar Heinroth...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth7 November 1903
CountryAustria
existence species
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.
distance men emotional
The distance at which all shooting weapons take effect screens the killer against the stimulus sensation which would otherwise activate his killing inhibitions. The deep, emotional layers of our personality simply do not register the fact that the crooking of the finger to release a shot tears the entrails of another man.
believe men suffering
I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive
fun men world
All scientific knowledge to which man owes his role as master of the world arose from playful activities.
dog men laughing
Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.
soul mind spirituality
The human soul is very much older than the human mind.
art truth brain
Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is.
cat animal expression
Few animals display their mood via facial expressions as distinctly as cats.
hate believe space-flight
I am convinced that of all the people on the two sides of the great curtain, the space pilots are the least likely to hate each other. Like the late Erich von Holst, I believe that the tremendous and otherwise not quite explicable public interest in space flight arises from the subconscious realization that it helps to preserve peace. May it continue to do so!
stupid successful science
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.
organization way instinct
The neuro-physiological organization which we call instinct functions in a blindly mechanical way, particularly apparent when its function goes wrong.
believe men order
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.
health men sick
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, crustaceans, insects and vertebrates. In other words, you leave out everything that makes a pigeon a pigeon, a rat a rat, a man a man, and, above all, a healthy man healthy and a sick man sick.
humor enough
We do not take humor seriously enough.