Konrad Lorenz Quotes


What is a value? Obviously, normal and healthy people are able to appreciate something as a high value for which to live and if necessary, to die, for no other reason than that it was evolved in cultural ritualization and handed down to them by a revered elder.


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Konrad Lorenz, 1903-1989, Austrian Physician and Zoologist, Nobel Laureate for Physiology and Medicine, On Aggression, 1963

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Konrad Lorenz
Konrad Lorenz
  • Born: November 7, 1903
  • Died: February 27, 1989
  • Nationality: Austrian
  • Profession: Scientist

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. He is often regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology, the study of animal behavior. He developed an approach that began with an earlier generation, including his teacher Oskar Heinroth.