Konrad Lorenz Quotes

The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being.

The bond with a dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth can ever be.

There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog

The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift.

The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it.

Just thinking that my dog loves me more than I love him, I feel shame.

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

Humor and knowledge are the two great hopes of our culture.

The instinctive need to be the member of a closely knit group fighting for common ideals may grow so strong that it becomes inessential what these ideals are.

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

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.

We do not take humor seriously enough.

It ought to be realized by all dog owners that obesity shortens a dog's life quite considerably, a life which is much too short anyhow.

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.

Man has been driven out of the paradise in which he could trust his instincts.

Hatred of humanity and love of animals make a very bad combination.

In science, new ideas are at first completely neglected, later fiercely attacked, and finally regarded as well known.

Barking dogs may occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot!

More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind.

The neuro-physiological organization which we call instinct functions in a blindly mechanical way, particularly apparent when its function goes wrong.

I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.

I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive

All scientific knowledge to which man owes his role as master of the world arose from playful activities.

Few animals display their mood via facial expressions as distinctly as cats.

We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.

Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is that which we perceive as a value.

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

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.

Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is.

Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man

The human soul is very much older than the human mind.

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.

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.

Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.

'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.

Every danger loses some of its terror once its causes are understood.