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
It goes with the passionate intensity and deep conviction of the truth of a religious belief, and of course of the importance… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
It can be said with complete confidence that any scientist of any age who wants to make important discoveries must study important… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
If the task of scientific methodology is to piece together an account of what scientists actually do, then the testimony of biologists… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
When asked to make the formal declaration that I did not intend to overthrow the Constitution of the United States, I was… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Any scientist of any age who wants to make important discoveries must study important problems. Dull or piffling problems yield dull or… — 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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