Freudian psychoanalytical theory is a mythology that answers pretty well to Levi-Strauss's descriptions. It brings some kind of order into incoherence; it,… — 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
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
It is the great glory as well as the great threat of science that everything which is in principle possible can be… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Psychoanalytic theory is the most stupendous intellectual confidence trick of the twentieth century and a terminal product as well-something akin to a… — 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
The Phenomenon of Man stands square in the tradition of Naturphilosophie, a philosophical indoor pastime of German origin which does not seem even by… — 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 reasoning known… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
We cannot point to a single definitive solution of any one of the problems that confront us — political, economic, social or moral, that… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
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