Classifier Quotes by Peter Medawar

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Peter Medawar has 47 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true…
• The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all.
• A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a…
• When asked to make the formal declaration that I did not intend to overthrow the Constitution of the United States, I was…
• Psychoanalytic theory is the most stupendous intellectual confidence trick of the twentieth century and a terminal product as well-something akin to a…
• Scientists are people of very dissimilar temperaments doing different things in very different ways. Among scientists are collectors, classifiers and compulsive tidiers-up;…
• Scientific reasoning is a kind of dialogue between the possible and the actual, between what might be and what is in fact…
• Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we…

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