The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be.
Konrad LorenzRead
More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind.
Interpretation
Scientific knowledge belongs to all humanity and is essential for progress.
In this quote, Konrad Lorenz emphasizes that scientific knowledge is a shared resource that transcends individual or national ownership. It reflects the collaborative nature of scientific advancement, suggesting that the discoveries and insights gained through science should benefit all of humanity rather than being monopolized or restricted to specific groups.
In practice
In a speech at a scientific conference, emphasizing the importance of open access to research for global progress.
The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be.
Whenever we find, in two forms of life that are unrelated to each other, a similarity of form or of behaviour patterns which relates to more than a few minor details, we assume it to be caused by parallel adaptation to the same life-preserving function.
I grew up in the large house and the larger garden of my parents in Altenberg. They were supremely tolerant of my inordinate love for animals.
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.
Most people have forgotten how to live with living creatures, with living systems and that, in turn, is the reason why man, whenever he comes into contact with nature, threatens to kill the natural system in which and from which he live.
I owe undying gratitude to my patient parents.
The Soyuz craft weighs tons, and you're lying on the floor of it on your back. But the Russians do tell you, remember, before you land, stop talking so you don't bite your tongue off.
I think that the future of the human race is to spread through the universe, and now is the time that we should be laying the foundations for that.
That's not right. That's not even wrong.
We are here to celebrate the completion of the first survey of the entire human genome. Without a doubt, this is the most important, most wondrous map ever produced by human kind.
On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
To understand the universe in the state that it began in, the so-called Big Bang, we need laws of physics that work better than our current set of rules and procedures, which break down when we try to push them back to the beginning.
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