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Konrad Lorenz
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The same individual geese on which we conducted these experiments, first aroused my interest in the process of domestication.
— Konrad Lorenz Biographical, The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1973.
Konrad Lorenz
Austrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973 (1903–1989)
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He made goslings follow him around like a parent, then turned that image into a science. Lorenz showed that behavior isn't all learned — some of it locks in at first sight, no questions asked.
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Konrad Zacharias Lorenz was born 7 November 1903 in Austria and trained as a zoologist with a focus on birds. Working with greylag geese and jackdaws, he studied imprinting — the process by which certain hatchlings bond instinctively to the first moving thing they see — and though he didn't discover it, his descriptions made it widely known. In 1936 he met Nikolaas Tinbergen, and together they built ethology into its own branch of biology. World War II pulled him into the German Army as a medic; in 1944 he was captured on the Eastern Front and spent four years as a prisoner in Soviet Armenia,…
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Konrad Lorenz
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The competition between human beings destroys with cold and diabolic brutality....
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Konrad Lorenz
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It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
— Trans. M. Latzke (1966), p. 8
Konrad Lorenz
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All too willingly man sees himself as the centre of the universe, as something not belonging to the rest of nature but standing apart as a different and higher being.
— Ch. XII : On the Virtue of Scientific Humility
Konrad Lorenz
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We are the highest achievement reached so far by the great constructors of evolution. We are their "latest" but certainly not their last word.
— Ch. XII : On the Virtue of Scientific Humility
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