"All scientific knowledge to which man owes his role as master of the world arose from playful activities."

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Source : Konrad Lorenz (1971). “Studies in animal and human behaviour”

Konrad Lorenz

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“He insisted on a single trade secret: that you had to survive, find some quiet, and work hard every day.”
“With out art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.”
“My main piece of advice would be dont worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also dont be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and dont be afraid.”
“Colonization means potential immortality for the human genus. Man's safety on Earth was never great, and it dwindles hourly. Disarmament, even world government, will not guarantee survival in an age when population presses natural resources to the limit and when the knowledge of how to work mischief on a planetary scale is ever more widely diffused among peoples who may grow ever more desperate.”
“The woods always look different at night...as if the daytime trees and flowers and stones had gone to bed and sent slightly more ominous versions of themselves to take their places.”
“Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.”
“All fires burn out at last.”

Source : Sigrid Undset (1927). “The cross”
“Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]”

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