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> [Simultaneous discovery is utterly commonplace, and it was only the rarity of scientists, not the inherent improbability of the phenomenon, that made it remarkable in the past. Scientists on the same road may be expected to arrive at the same…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-medawar/simultaneous-discovery-is-utterly-commonplace-and-it-was-only-the/)

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

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## Other authors on Improbability

## 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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