Quotes About Konrad Lorenz

Man has been driven out of the paradise in which he could trust his instincts.

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, who won a Nobel Prize in 1973 for his work on the organization of social behavior in animals, often spoke of his Greylag geese "falling in love." Occasionally, his colleagues took him to task for being anthropomorphic, and he would reply, "It is the accurate term for a real phenomenon for which there is no other name. I consider the term appropriate to any species, if that is in fact what they do.