A man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small danger of succumbing to flattering delusions about himself, because he cannot help perceiving what a pompous ass he would become if he did.
"Konrad Zacharias Lorenz" was an Austrian zoology/zoologist, ethology/ethologist, and ornithologist. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch. He is often regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology, developing an approach that began with an earlier generation, including his teacher Oskar Heinroth.
Lorenz studied instinct/instinctive behavior in animals, especially in Greylag Goose/greylag geese and jackdaws. Working with geese, he investigated the principle of imprinting (psychology)/imprinting, the process by which some nidifugous birds (i.e. birds that leave their nest early), bond with the first moving object that they see within the first hours of hatching. Although Lorenz did not discover the topic, he became widely known for his descriptions of imprinting as an instinctive emotional bond. In 1936 he met Dutch biologist Nikolaas Tinbergen, and the two collaborated in developing ethology as a separate sub-discipline of biology.
Lorenz's work was interrupted by the onset of World War II and in 1941 he was recruited into the German army as a medic. In 1944 he was sent to the Eastern Front where he was captured and spent 4 years as a Soviet prisoner of war. After the war he regretted his membership of the Nazi party.
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Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
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.
Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.
I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man: It is we.
One meteorologist remarked that if the theory were correct, one flap of a seagull's wings would be enough to alter the course of the weather forever.
We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.
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