Tinbergen Quotes

#1. Here we meet a very important feature. It would seem as if this were circular reasoning; profits fell because investment fell, and investment fell because profits fell. - Jan Tinbergen,5 Jan Tinbergen,

Donella H. Meadows

#2. 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

#3. Nico Tinbergen was my doctoral supervisor, and he was a benign, avuncular sort of influence; everybody loved him.

Richard Dawkins

#4. The majority of autists - as well as their parents - seem to be genuine victims of environmental stress.

Nikolaas Tinbergen

#5. It's unclear who moves first. We're in each other's arms, lips locked, melded, hotly fused. Our hands drag over each other, reacquainting, remembering, almost as if we're both verifying the other one is real flesh and blood.

Sophie Jordan

#6. Whenever a gentle pressure is used to make a slight change in leg posture, the neck muscles react immediately. Conversely, when the therapist helps one to 'release' the neck muscles, it is amazing to see quite pronounced movements for instance of the toes, even when one is lying on a couch.

Nikolaas Tinbergen

#7. I find when you talk with the Chinese on most subjects, they are very practical.

Dennis C. Blair

#8. My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.

Robert E.Lee

#9. Proper stance and movement are obviously genetically old, environment-resistant behaviours. Misuse, with all its psychosomatic or, rather, somato-psychic consequences, must therefore be considered a result of modern living conditions - of a culturally determined stress.

Nikolaas Tinbergen

#10. I was not much interested in school, and both at secondary school and at university, I only just scraped through, with as little effort as I judged possible without failing.

Nikolaas Tinbergen

#11. As a boy, I had two small aquaria in our backyard in which I watched, each spring, the nest building and other fascinating behaviours of sticklebacks.

Nikolaas Tinbergen

#12. Relatively many autists are first-born children. There is also a pretty widespread conviction that the parents of autists are somehow different - for instance, many of them are very serious people or people who are themselves under some sort of strain.

Nikolaas Tinbergen

#13. For hostile word let hostile word be paid.

Aeschylus

#14. The first principle of aid is respect.

Ernesto Sirolli

#15. I like the dark," she said. "Ain't it just like a big blue blanket wrappin' us up with comfort?

Suzanne Palmieri

#16. I shave my body in all kinds of ways, wear tons of eyeliner and dye my hair pink.

Beth Ditto