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Scientist Quotes by Peter Medawar
- I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing…
- Scientists are people of very dissimilar temperaments doing different things in very different ways. Among scientists are collectors, classifiers and compulsive tidiers-up; many are detectives…
- The attempt to discover and promulgate the truth is nevertheless an obligation upon all scientists, one that must be persevered in no matter what the…
- Simultaneous discovery is utterly commonplace, and it was only the rarity of scientists, not the inherent improbability of the phenomenon, that made it remarkable in…
- A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the…
- All scientists know of colleagues whose minds are so well equipped with the means of refutation that no new idea has the temerity to seek…
- For a scientist must indeed be freely imaginative and yet skeptical, creative and yet a critic. There is a sense in which he must be…
- If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.
- Scientists who think science consists of unprejudiced data-gathering without speculation are merely cows grazing on the pasture of knowledge.
- 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…
- No scientist is admired for failing in the attempt to solve problems that lie beyond his competence. ... Good scientists study the most important problems…
- 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…
- 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…
More Scientist Quotes
- When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural. — Amelia Barr
- Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid. — Dave Barry
- Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy… — Scott Adams
- My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think… — Martha Beck
- Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians. — Mortimer Adler
- I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer. — Bjork
- Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas.… — Edward de Bono
- I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers… — Norman Borlaug
- The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible. — Ray Bradbury
- Touch a scientist and you touch a child. — Ray Bradbury
- Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last… — Jacob Bronowski