The father-mother family with two children isolated in a city flat is already insufficient. Konrad Lorenz Read Quote
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. Konrad Lorenz Read Quote
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 Read Quote
In the course of evolution, it constantly happens that, independently of each other, two different forms of life take similar, parallel paths in adapting themselves to the same external circumstances. Konrad Lorenz Read Quote
From a neighbour, I got a one-day-old duckling and found, to my intense joy, that it transferred its following response to my person. At the same time, my interest became irreversibly fixated on water fowl, and I became an expert on their behaviour even as a child. Konrad Lorenz Read Quote
I grew up in the large house and the larger garden of my parents in Altenberg. They were supremely tolerant of my inordinate love for animals. Konrad Lorenz Read Quote
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. Konrad Lorenz Read Quote
I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive. Konrad Lorenz Read Quote
Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value. Konrad Lorenz Read Quote
