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

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

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Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in...

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Третье великое препятствие человеческого самопознания — по крайней мере в нашей западной культуре — ...

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On Aggression

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

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Lads Before the Wind: Diary of a Dolphin Trainer

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

Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins

More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective prope...

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

We do not take humor seriously enough.

I believe I've found the missing link between animal and civilized man. It is us.

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 c...

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Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about ev...

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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to ...

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Konrad Lorenz

Zoologist

Born: 1903-11-07

Died: 1989-02-27

Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (November 7, 1903 – February 27, 1989) was an Austrian zoologist, animal psychologist, and ornithologist. He is one of the recipients of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He is often regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology.More