All Peter Medawar Quotes
- The art of research [is] the art of making difficult problems soluble by devising means of getting at them. Art
- To deride the hope of progress is the ultimate fatuity, the last word in poverty of spirit and meanness of mind. Anticipation
- If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility. Cut
- It is a common failing-and one that I have myself suffered from-to fall in love with a hypothesis and to be unwilling to take no… Affair
- Scientists who think science consists of unprejudiced data-gathering without speculation are merely cows grazing on the pasture of knowledge. Consists
- It is ... a sign of the times-though our brothers of physics and chemistry may smile to hear me say so-that biology is now a… Accounts
- You have ... been told that science grows like an organism. You have been told that, if we today see further than our predecessors, it… Accounts
- Any scientist of any age who wants to make important discoveries must study important problems. Dull or piffling problems yield dull or piffling answers. It… Age
- No scientist is admired for failing in the attempt to solve problems that lie beyond his competence. ... Good scientists study the most important problems… Admired
- If a person is A) poorly, B) receives treatment intended to make him better, and C) gets better, then no power of reasoning known to… Been
- The fact that scientists do not consciously practice a formal methodology is very poor evidence that no such methodology exists. It could be said-has been… All
- Twice in my life I have spent two weary and scientifically profitless years seeking evidence to corroborate dearly loved hypotheses that later proved to be… Bringing
- [A certain class of explanations in science are] analgesics that dull the ache of incomprehension without removing the cause. Ache
- I once spoke to a human geneticist who declared that the notion of intelligence was quite meaningless, so I tried calling him unintelligent. He was… Annoyed
- The case I shall find evidence for is that when literature arrives, it expels science. Arrives
- Heredity proposes and development disposes. Development
- Is the Scientific Paper a Fraud? Fraud
- A danger sign that fellow-obsessionals will at once recognize is the tendency to regard the happiest moments of your life as those that occur when… Appointment
- The USA is so enormous, and so numerous are its schools, colleges and religious seminaries, many devoted to special religious beliefs ranging from the unorthodox… Belief
- The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. Body
- The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. Body
- The USA is so enormous, and so numerous are its schools, colleges and religious seminaries, many devoted to special religious beliefs ranging from the unorthodox… Beliefs