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The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be.

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I consider early childhood events as most essential to a man's scientific and philosophical development.

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It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

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There is indeed the possibility that the evolutionary process has, in gray antiquity, bred into us an excess of aggression.

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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.

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We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.

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Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.

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We do not take humor seriously enough.

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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.

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I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive.

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Biography

Nationality: Austrian

Type: Scientist

Born: November 7th, 1903

Died: February 27th, 1989

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