It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
From Konrad Lorenz
Ethologists are often accused of drawing false analogies between animal and human behaviour. However, no such thing as a false analogy exists: an analogy can be more or less detailed and, hence, more or less informative.
Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.
There is indeed the possibility that the evolutionary process has, in gray antiquity, bred into us an excess of aggression.
I consider early childhood events as most essential to a man's scientific and philosophical development.
From a neighbour, I got a one-day-old duckling and found, to my intense joy, that it transferred its following response to my person. At the same time, my interest became irreversibly fixated on water fowl, and I became an expert on their behaviour even as a child.
The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be.
Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.
I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive.
Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man.
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