Konrad Lorenz Quotes & Sayings

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

“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.”

“The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be.”

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

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

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

“'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.”

“We do not take humor seriously enough.”

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

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