Konrad Lorenz Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

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

  Konrad Lorenz

  Truth, Science, Religion

  Konrad Lorenz (2002). “On Aggression”, p.279, Psychology Press

• Visualize yourself confronted with the task of killing, one after the other, a cabbage, a fly, a fish, a lizard, a guinea pig, a cat, a dog, a monkey and a baby chimpanzee. In the unlikely case that you should experience no greater inhibitions in killing the chimpanzee than in destroying the cabbage or the fly, my advice to you is to commit suicide at your earliest possible convenience, because you are a weird monstrosity and a public danger.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Suicide, Dog, Baby

  Richard Isadore Evans, Konrad Lorenz (1975). “Konrad Lorenz: The Man and His Ideas”, Harcourt

• 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

  Morning, Good Day, Science

  On Aggression ch. 2 (1966)

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

  Konrad Lorenz

  Science, Men, Missing

  Quoted in N.Y. Times Magazine, 11 Apr. 1965

• 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

  Science, Libertarian, Faces

  Konrad Lorenz (2005). “On Aggression”, p.115, Routledge

• If you confine yourself to this Skinnerian technique, you study nothing but the learning apparatus and you leave out everything that is different in octopi, crustaceans, insects and vertebrates. In other words, you leave out everything that makes a pigeon a pigeon, a rat a rat, a man a man, and, above all, a healthy man healthy and a sick man sick.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Learning, Health, Science

  Richard Isadore Evans, Konrad Lorenz (1975). “Konrad Lorenz: The Man and His Ideas”, Harcourt

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

  Konrad Lorenz

  Knowledge, Science, Culture

  KONRAD LORENZ (1963). “ON AGRESSION”

• 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.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Nature, Science, Existence

  Konrad Lorenz (1979). “On aggression”

• 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.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Stupid, Successful, Science

• The scientist knows very well that he is approaching ultimate truth only in an asymptotic curve and is barred from ever reaching it; but at the same time he is proudly aware of being indeed able to determine whether a statement is a nearer or a less near approach to the truth.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Knowledge, Pride, Science

  Konrad Lorenz (2002). “On Aggression”, p.279, Psychology Press

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

  Konrad Lorenz

  Art, Truth, Science

  Konrad Lorenz (2002). “On Aggression”, p.279, Psychology Press

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