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> [I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-medawar/i-cannot-give-any-scientist-of-any-age-better-advice-than-this-the-2/)

[Peter Medawar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-medawar/)

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> [The intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing on whether it is true or false. The importance of the strength of our conviction is only to provide a proportionately strong incentive to find out if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-medawar/the-intensity-of-a-conviction-that-a-hypothesis-is-true-has-no/)

[Peter Medawar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-medawar/)

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## More by Peter Medawar

> [The USA is so enormous, and so numerous are its schools, colleges and religious seminaries, many devoted to special religious beliefs ranging from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-medawar/the-usa-is-so-enormous-and-so-numerous-are-its-schools-colleges-and/)

[Peter Medawar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-medawar/)

> [Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-medawar/innocent-unbiased-observation-is-a-myth/)

[Peter Medawar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-medawar/)

> [An experiment not worth doing is not worth doing well.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-medawar/an-experiment-not-worth-doing-is-not-worth-doing-well/)

[Peter Medawar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-medawar/)

> [Science is the art of the solvable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-medawar/science-is-the-art-of-the-solvable/)

[Peter Medawar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-medawar/)

> [ \[A certain class of explanations in science are\] analgesics that dull the ache of incomprehension without removing the cause. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-medawar/a-certain-class-of-explanations-in-science-are-analgesics-that-dull/)

[Peter Medawar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-medawar/)

> [Twice in my life I have spent two weary and scientifically profitless years seeking evidence to corroborate dearly loved hypotheses that later proved to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-medawar/twice-in-my-life-i-have-spent-two-weary-and-scientifically-profitless/)

[Peter Medawar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-medawar/)

> [If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-medawar/if-politics-is-the-art-of-the-possible-research-is-surely-the-art-of/)

[Peter Medawar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-medawar/)

> [Ask a scientist what he conceives the scientific method to be and he will adopt an expression that is at once solemn and shifty-eyed:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-medawar/ask-a-scientist-what-he-conceives-the-scientific-method-to-be-and-he/)

[Peter Medawar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-medawar/)

> [The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-medawar/the-human-mind-treats-a-new-idea-the-way-the-body-treats-a-strange/)

[Peter Medawar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-medawar/)

> [I once spoke to a human geneticist who declared that the notion of intelligence was quite meaningless, so I tried calling him unintelligent. He…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-medawar/i-once-spoke-to-a-human-geneticist-who-declared-that-the-notion-of/)

[Peter Medawar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-medawar/)

> [I reckon that for all the use it has been to science about four-fifths of my time has been wasted, and I believe this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-medawar/i-reckon-that-for-all-the-use-it-has-been-to-science-about-four/)

[Peter Medawar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-medawar/)

> [We shall not read it for its sociological insights, which are non-existent, nor as science fiction, because it has a general air of implausibility;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-medawar/we-shall-not-read-it-for-its-sociological-insights-which-are-non/)

[Peter Medawar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-medawar/)

> [The Phenomenon of Man stands square in the tradition of Naturphilosophie, a philosophical indoor pastime of German origin which does not seem even by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-medawar/the-phenomenon-of-man-stands-square-in-the-tradition-of/)

[Peter Medawar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-medawar/)

> [If a person is A) poorly, B) receives treatment intended to make him better, and C) gets better, then no power of reasoning known…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-medawar/if-a-person-is-a-poorly-b-receives-treatment-intended-to-make-him/)

[Peter Medawar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-medawar/)

> [We cannot point to a single definitive solution of any one of the problems that confront us — political, economic, social or moral, that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-medawar/we-cannot-point-to-a-single-definitive-solution-of-any-one-of-the/)

[Peter Medawar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-medawar/)

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