[A certain class of explanations in science are] analgesics that dull the ache of incomprehension without removing the cause. — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Twice in my life I have spent two weary and scientifically profitless years seeking evidence to corroborate dearly loved hypotheses that later… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs. — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Ask a scientist what he conceives the scientific method to be and he will adopt an expression that is at once solemn… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
I once spoke to a human geneticist who declared that the notion of intelligence was quite meaningless, so I tried calling him… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
I reckon that for all the use it has been to science about four-fifths of my time has been wasted, and I… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
We shall not read it for its sociological insights, which are non-existent, nor as science fiction, because it has a general air… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
If a person is A) poorly, B) receives treatment intended to make him better, and C) gets better, then no power of… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
It is high time that laymen abandoned the misleading belief that scientific enquiry is a cold dispassionate enterprise, bleached of imaginative qualities,… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It is an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
I believe in intelligence, and I believe also that there are inherited differences in intellectual ability, but I do not believe that… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
No scientist is admired for failing in the attempt to solve problems that lie beyond his competence. ... Good scientists study the… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Scientific reasoning is a dialogue between the possible and the actual, between proposal and disposal between what might be true, and what… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
All scientists know of colleagues whose minds are so well equipped with the means of refutation that no new idea has the… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
The attempt to discover and promulgate the truth is nevertheless an obligation upon all scientists, one that must be persevered in no… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
You have ... been told that science grows like an organism. You have been told that, if we today see further than… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
The purpose of scientific enquiry is not to compile an inventory of factual information, nor to build up a totalitarian world picture… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
The art of research [is] the art of making difficult problems soluble by devising means of getting at them. — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Scientific reasoning is a kind of dialogue between the possible and the actual, between what might be and what is in fact… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“Whichever form of revenge a scientist decides upon, whether to withdraw from cultural interests or to dazzle his fellow men with omniscience,… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Scientists who think science consists of unprejudiced data-gathering without speculation are merely cows grazing on the pasture of knowledge. — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Scientists are people of very dissimilar temperaments doing different things in very different ways. Among scientists are collectors, classifiers and compulsive tidiers-up;… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
The USA is so enormous, and so numerous are its schools, colleges and religious seminaries, many devoted to special religious beliefs ranging from the… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
[A certain class of explanations in science are] analgesics that dull the ache of incomprehension without removing the cause. — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Twice in my life I have spent two weary and scientifically profitless years seeking evidence to corroborate dearly loved hypotheses that later proved to… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs. — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
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:… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
I once spoke to a human geneticist who declared that the notion of intelligence was quite meaningless, so I tried calling him unintelligent. He… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
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… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
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;… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
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