Top 84 Lorenz Quotes
#1. Lorenz was the charismatic, flamboyant thinker - he didn't conduct a single statistical analysis in his life - while Tinbergen did the nitty-gritty of actual data collection.
Frans De Waal
#2. Not unlike Lorenz's emphasis on knowing the whole animal, Imanishi urged us to empathize with the species under study. We need to get under its skin, he said, or as we would nowadays put it, try to enter its Umwelt.
Frans De Waal
#3. There must be something unique about man because otherwise, evidently, the ducks would be lecturing about Konrad Lorenz, and the rats would be writing papers about B. F. Skinner.
Jacob Bronowski
#4. The scientific principles of the convergence and refraction of light are very confusing, and quite frankly I can't make head or tail of them, even when my friend Dr. Lorenz explains them to me.
Lemony Snicket
#5. Could it be that we made arbitrary decisions at some point in the past (like the goslings that adopted Lorenz as their parent) and have built our lives on them ever since, assuming that the original decisions were wise?
Dan Ariely
#6. You dress like that all the time. Like a man."My eyes widened. "I don't dress like a man," I said. "I dress practically. Because I live on a farm. And do icky, farmy things all the time."
Lorenz grinned, which was breathtaking. "A cute little man.
Cate Tiernan
#7. This is it, this was my new home, or prison I wasn't entirely sure yet which. I am not sure if I am ready for anything that is to come, but it seems I have very little choice.
Kerri E. Lorenz
#8. He who has seen the intimate beauty of nature cannot tear himself away from it again. He must become either a poet or a naturalist and, if his eyes are keen and his powers of observation sharp enough, he may well become both.
Konrad Lorenz
#9. 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
#10. How we love sequestering, where no pests are pestering.
Lorenz Hart
#11. Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.
Konrad Lorenz
#13. The human soul is very much older than the human mind.
Konrad Lorenz
#14. For me, baseball just brings up a lot of nostalgic, happy feelings because I enjoyed it as a kid, and I liked being out there playing in the sun, and it was a simpler time for all of us.
Robert Lorenz
#15. I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man: It is we.
Konrad Lorenz
#16. We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.
Konrad Lorenz
#17. When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another.
Edward Norton Lorenz
#18. A man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small danger of succumbing to flattering delusions about himself, because he cannot help perceiving what a pompous ass he would become if he did.
Konrad Lorenz
#19. But man should abstain from judging his innocently cruel fellow creatures, for even if nature sometimes "shrieks against his creed", what pain does he himself not inflict upon the living creatures that he hunts for pleasure and not for food?
Konrad Lorenz
#20. 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
#21. Natural selection does not give any preference at all to anything that, in the long run, could be advantageous for the species but blindly rewards everything that, momentarily, affords greater procreative success.
Konrad Lorenz
#22. Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true.
Lorenz Hart
#23. Humans are so ignorant. That word means something else, but you use it to try to insult others. You do realize that only humans view such things as homosexuality as a sin. In the other realms it is nothing it doesn't exist as love is love and gender matters not.
Kerri E. Lorenz
#24. In the almost film-like flitting-by of modern life, a man needs something to tell him, from time to time, that he is still himself, and nothing can give him this assurance in so comforting a manner as the "four feet trotting behind".
Konrad Lorenz
#25. All the advantages that man has gained from his ever-deepening understanding of the natural world that surrounds him, his technological, chemical and medical progress, all of which should seem to alleviate human suffering ... tends instead to favor humanity's destruction.
Konrad Lorenz
#26. '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.
Konrad Lorenz
#27. Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood.
Edward Norton Lorenz
#28. Hate California
it's cold and it's damp.
Lorenz Hart
#29. The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it.
Konrad Lorenz
#30. I get too hungry for dinner at eight. I like the theater, but never come late. I never bother with people I hate. That's why the lady is a tramp.
Lorenz Hart
#31. We must wholeheartedly believe in free will. If free will is a reality, we shall have made the correct choice. If it is not, we shall still not have made an incorrect choice, becauee we shall not have made any choice at all, not having a free will to do so.
Edward Norton Lorenz
#32. Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.
Lorenz Hart
#33. Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man.
Konrad Lorenz
#34. Blue Moon,
You saw me standing alone,
Without a dream in my heart,
Without a love of my own.
Lorenz Hart
#35. The missing link between animals and the real human being is most likely ourselves.
Konrad Lorenz
#36. Directing, what little I know, is as much knowing when to step in as when to step out.
Robert Lorenz
#37. The bond with a dog is as lasting as the ties of this Earth can ever be.
Konrad Lorenz
#38. During its development the animal passes through all stages of the animal kingdom. The foetus is a representation of all animal classes in time.
Lorenz Oken
#39. 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
#40. I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive.
Konrad Lorenz
#41. 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
#42. The neuro-physiological organization which we call instinct functions in a blindly mechanical way, particularly apparent when its function goes wrong.
Konrad Lorenz
#43. Bewitched, bothered and bewildered am I.
Lorenz Hart
#44. 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.
Konrad Lorenz
#45. Just thinking that my dog loves me more than I love him, I feel shame.
Konrad Lorenz
#46. I sit here and tell everyone else they are beautiful just the way they are flaws and all. Then I turn to the mirror and pick myself apart. Huh I guess everyone is a hypocrite in one way or another.
Kerri E. Lorenz
#47. Man has been driven out of the paradise in which he could trust his instincts.
Konrad Lorenz
#48. I am not your Doll, and I will not take it easy. The more you fight the more pain I will bring to you. There is no longer a string that can be pulled to make me all cute and cuddly again.
Kerri E. Lorenz
#49. The whole of a human being is merely a vertebra.
Lorenz Oken
#50. Hatred of humanity and love of animals make a very bad combination.
Konrad Lorenz
#51. Few animals display their mood via facial expressions as distinctly as cats.
Konrad Lorenz
#52. More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind.
Konrad Lorenz
#53. Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value.
Konrad Lorenz
#54. Quitting is a hiccup for losers. And down they go.
Lorenz Font
#55. When love congeals It soon reveals The faint aroma of performing seals, The double-crossing of a pair of heels. I wish I were in love again!
Lorenz Hart
#56. Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who know more and more about less and less, until they know everything about nothing.
Konrad Lorenz
#57. I took one look at you That's all I meant to do And my heart stood still.
Lorenz Hart
#58. Most people have forgotten how to live with living creatures, with living systems and that, in turn, is the reason why man, whenever he comes into contact with nature, threatens to kill the natural system in which and from which he live.
Konrad Lorenz
#59. Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is.
Konrad Lorenz
#60. The cat is a wild animal that inhabits the homes of humans.
Konrad Lorenz
#61. I believe that both art and the human striving for cognitive comprehension are manifest forms of the grand game in which nothing more is stipulated than the game's rules; both art and actively solicited perceptions are but special cases of the recurring creative act to which we owe our existence.
Konrad Lorenz
#62. Man is the summit, the crown of nature's development, and must comprehend everything that has preceded him, even as the fruit includes within itself all the earlier developed parts of the plant. In a word, Man must represent the whole world in miniature.
Lorenz Oken
#63. He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Lorenz Font
#64. The cells are thus the stomachs of which the plant has millions like mouths.
Lorenz Oken
#65. There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog
Konrad Lorenz
#66. Man appears to be the missing link between anthropoid apes and human beings.
Konrad Lorenz
#67. 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.
Konrad Lorenz
#68. 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.
Konrad Lorenz
#69. Unless the object of the singer's affection is a vampire, surely what Hart means is unphotogenic. Only vampires are unphotographable, but affectionate '-enic' rhymes are hard to come by.
Stephen Sondheim
#70. All scientific knowledge to which man owes his role as master of the world arose from playful activities.
Konrad Lorenz
#71. The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be.
Konrad Lorenz
#72. Let's here it for modern dentistry, eh? I said, and he grimaced. Actually, as much as people dislike going to the dentist now, try doing it two hundred years ago, when having a cavity meant some quack knocking it out with a chisel and a hammer in the market square. With no anesthetic.
Cate Tiernan
#73. The eye takes a person into the world. The ear brings the world into a human being.
Lorenz Oken
#74. 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.
Konrad Lorenz
#75. Every actor's different. It seems to me the older veterans, they don't need to hear as much. But younger actors need a little more feedback, a little more assurance, and that's fine.
Robert Lorenz
#76. Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.
Konrad Lorenz
#77. Every scientist should, after all, regard it as his duty to tell the public, in a generally intelligible way, about what he is doing
Konrad Lorenz
#78. Humor and knowledge are the two great hopes of our culture.
Konrad Lorenz
#79. The lovely loving and the hateful hates.
Lorenz Hart
#80. The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being.
Konrad Lorenz
#81. Comfort leads to complacency, and complacency kills. For this reason, I believe that we all should be a little uncoomfortable in our jobs.
Stephen R. Lorenz
#82. Falling in love with love
Is falling for make-believe.
Lorenz Hart
#83. 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.
Konrad Lorenz
#84. Every danger loses some of its terror once its causes are understood.
Konrad Lorenz
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