Konrad Lorenz Quotes About Evolution

Quotes about: Evolution

• Man appears to be the missing link between anthropoid apes and human beings.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Science, Men, Missing

  Quoted in N.Y. Times Magazine, 11 Apr. 1965

• All living beings have received their weapons through the same process of evolution that moulded their impulses and inhibitions; for the structural plan of the body and the system of behaviour of a species are parts of the same whole.... Wordsworth is right: there is only one being in possession of weapons which do not grow on his body and of whose working plan, therefore, the instincts of his species know nothing and in the usage of which he has no correspondingly adequate inhibition.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Behaviour, Body, Adequate

  Konrad Lorenz (1961). “King Solomon's ring: new light on animal ways”, Thomas Y. Crowell

• 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.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Science, Libertarian, Faces

  Konrad Lorenz (2005). “On Aggression”, p.115, Routledge

• Every mutation through a new combination of genetic factors that provides the organism with a new opportunity for coming to terms with the conditions of its environment signifies no more and no less than that new information about this environment has got into that organic system. Adaptation is essentially a cognitive process.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Opportunity, Mutation, Information

• Natural selection does not give any preference at all to anything that, in the long run, could be advantageous for the species but blindly rewards everything that, momentarily, affords greater procreative success.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Running, Long, Giving

• 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

  Stars, Law, Two

  "On Aggression" by Konrad Lorenz, (Ch. XII), 1963.

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