90 Quotes by Konrad Lorenz

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

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

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.

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

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.

More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind.

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

No such thing as a false analogy exists: an analogy can be more or less detailed and hence more or less informative.

Every scientist should, after all, regard it as his duty to tell the public, in a generally intelligible way, about what he is doing