Konrad Lorenz - Nature Quotes

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Nothing can better express the feelings of the scientist towards the great unity of the laws of nature than in Immanuel Kant's words: "Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing awe: the stars above me and the moral law within me."… Would he, who did not yet know of the evolution of the world of organisms, be shocked that we consider the moral law within us not as something given, a priori, but as something which has arisen by natural evolution, just like the laws of the heavens?

Konrad Lorenz
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.

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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. Many people cling to this error and remain deaf to the wisest command ever given by a sage, the famous "Know thyself" inscribed in the temple of Delphi.

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He who has seen the intimate beauty of nature cannot tear himself away from it again. He must become either a poet or a naturalist and, if his eyes are keen and his powers of observation sharp enough, he may well become both.

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Much of the beauty and wonder of nature is based on the fact that organic life is directed towards goals — towards survival, reproduction, and the attainment of higher perfection.

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There are no good biologists whose vocation was not born of deep joy in the beauties of living nature.

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