Konrad Lorenz Quotes

1903 - 1989

Austrian    zoologist    and    ethnologist.    Lorenz    studied    the organization    of    individual    animal    and    group    behaviour patterns.   He   shared   the  1973   Nobel   prize   in   physiology   or medicine with Karl von Frisch. «

The cat is a wild animal that inhabits the homes of humans.

Konrad Lorenz, Man Meets Dog.

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Uberhaupt ist es fu«  r den Forscher ein guter Morgensport, t a« glich vor dem Fru«  hstu«  ck eine Lieblingshypothese einzustampfendas erh a« lt jung. 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
— 1963  Das sogenannte Bo«  se ('The So-Called Evil', translated by Marjorie Latzke as On  Aggression,1966), ch.2.

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Man appearsto be the missing link between anthropoid apes and human beings.

Konrad Lorenz
— 1965  In the NewYork Times,11  Apr. King  of  France  (1226-70).  He  led  the  Seventh  Crusade  (1248), but  was  defeated,  imprisoned  and ransomed.  On  his  return  to France  (1254)  he  carried out reforms  and encouraged the  arts and  literature.  He  began  a  new  Crusade  in 1270,  but  died  of plague inTunis.

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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.

Konrad Lorenz
— Ch. XII : On the Virtue of Scientific Humility

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I now come to the third great obstacle to human self-knowledge, to the belief deeply rooted in our western culture that what can be explained in terms of natural science has no values. This belief springs from an exaggeration of Kant 's values-philosophy, the consequence of the idealistic dichotomy of the world into the external world of things and the internal laws of human reason.

Konrad Lorenz
— Ch. XII : On the Virtue of Scientific Humility

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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 !"

Konrad Lorenz
— Ch. XII : On the Virtue of Scientific Humility

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Nothing can better express the feelings of the scientist towards the great unity of the laws of nature than in Immanuel Kant's words: "Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing awe: the stars above me and the moral law within me."... Would he, who did not yet know of the evolution of the world of organisms, be shocked that we consider the moral law within us not as something given, a priori, but as something which has arisen by natural evolution, just like the laws of the heavens?

Konrad Lorenz
— Ch. XII : On the Virtue of Scientific Humility

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The competition between human beings destroys with cold and diabolic brutality.... Under the pressure of this competitive fury we have not only forgotten what is useful to humanity as a whole, but even that which is good and advantageous to the individual.... One asks, which is more damaging to modern humanity: the thirst for money or consuming haste... in either case, fear plays a very important role: the fear of being overtaken by one's competitors, the fear of becoming poor, the fear of making wrong decisions or the fear of not being up to snuff.

Konrad Lorenz
— pp45-47

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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.

Konrad Lorenz

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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.

Konrad Lorenz
— 1244   To his son, Louis, at Fontainebleau.

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