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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.

Konrad Lorenz

The attitude of the true scientist towards the real limits of human understanding was unforgettably impressed on me in early youth by the obviously unpremeditated words of a great biologist; Alfred Kuhn finished a lecture to the Austrian Academy of Science with Goethe's words, "It is the greatest joy of the man of thought to have explored the explorable and then calmly to revere the inexplorable." After the last word he hesitated, raised his hand in repudiation and cried, above the applause, "No, not calmly, gentlemen; not calmly!"

Konrad Lorenz

Konrad Lorenz

Konrad Lorenz

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Born: November 7, 1903

Died: February 27, 1989 (aged 85)

Bio: Konrad Zacharias Lorenz was an Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch.

Known for:

King Solomon's Ring (1949)
On Aggression (1963)
Man Meets Dog (1949)
Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins (1974)

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