I don’t need brains,’ says the billionaire contemptuously. ‘I’m brainy enough myself!’ The broker cries out in desperation, ‘What, in heaven’s name, do you want?’ ‘Goodness,’ is the answer. Konrad Lorenz Read Quote
When I was about ten, I discovered evolution by reading a book by Wilhelm Boelsche and seeing a picture of Archaeopteryx. Konrad Lorenz Read Quote
Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man. Konrad Lorenz Read Quote
Ethologists are often accused of drawing false analogies between animal and human behaviour. However, no such thing as a false analogy exists: an analogy can be more or less detailed and, hence, more or less informative. Konrad Lorenz Read Quote
There is indeed the possibility that the evolutionary process has, in gray antiquity, bred into us an excess of aggression. Konrad Lorenz Read Quote
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. Konrad Lorenz Read Quote
I consider early childhood events as most essential to a man’s scientific and philosophical development. Konrad Lorenz Read Quote
Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one. Konrad Lorenz Read Quote