Every mutation through a new combination of genetic factors that provides the organism with a new opportunity for coming to terms with the conditions of its environment signifies no more and no less than that new information about this environment has got into that organic system. Adaptation is essentially a cognitive process.
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… - Konrad Lorenz
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…
- Konrad Lorenz
More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind. - Konrad Lorenz
More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind.
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… - Konrad Lorenz
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…
Just thinking that my dog loves me more than I love him, I feel shame. - Konrad Lorenz
Just thinking that my dog loves me more than I love him, I feel shame.
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
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.
The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it. - Konrad Lorenz
The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it.
I believe-and human psychologists, particularly psychoanalysts should test this-that present-day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of… - Konrad Lorenz
I believe-and human psychologists, particularly psychoanalysts should test this-that present-day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of…
The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift. - Konrad Lorenz
The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift.
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 co… - Konrad Lorenz
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 co…
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