The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be.
Konrad LorenzRead
More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind.
Interpretation
Scientific knowledge belongs to all humanity and is essential for progress.
In this quote, Konrad Lorenz emphasizes that scientific knowledge is a shared resource that transcends individual or national ownership. It reflects the collaborative nature of scientific advancement, suggesting that the discoveries and insights gained through science should benefit all of humanity rather than being monopolized or restricted to specific groups.
In practice
In a speech at a scientific conference, emphasizing the importance of open access to research for global progress.
The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be.
Whenever we find, in two forms of life that are unrelated to each other, a similarity of form or of behaviour patterns which relates to more than a few minor details, we assume it to be caused by parallel adaptation to the same life-preserving function.
I grew up in the large house and the larger garden of my parents in Altenberg. They were supremely tolerant of my inordinate love for animals.
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.
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.
I owe undying gratitude to my patient parents.
It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.
Theories are like a stairway; by climbing, science widens its horizon more and more, because theories embody and necessarily include proportionately more facts as they advance.
I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.
Going to Mars would evolve humankind into a two-planet species.
The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two million villages, and thus a problem of two thousand million villagers.
The statistical probability that organic structures and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by accident, is zero.
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