Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.
About 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.
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The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be.
Austrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973
Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value.
Austrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973
Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.
Austrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973
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.
Austrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973
Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.
Austrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973
I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.
Austrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973
Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man.
Austrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973
We do not take humor seriously enough.
Austrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
Austrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973
Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.
Austrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973
We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.
Austrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973
I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive.
Austrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973