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Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

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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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Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value.

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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.

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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

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I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.

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'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer.

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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.

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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.

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When I was about ten, I discovered evolution by reading a book by Wilhelm Boelsche and seeing a picture of Archaeopteryx.

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Biography

Nationality: Austrian

Type: Scientist

Born: November 7th, 1903

Died: February 27th, 1989

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