Innocent Quote by Peter Medawar Download Open image “Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth.” — Peter Medawar ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Innocent Myth Observation Storytelling Unbiased
“This is why myth is experienced as innocent speech: not because its intentions are hidden—if they were hidden, they could not be efficacious—but because… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer. — Heinz von Foerster Copy Share Image
The myth works to make the very real things people don't want to look at visible for them. — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Myths have a way of bringing what is unconscious to the surface and putting a face on what we cannot see.” — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“In general, if we carefully examine any given situation in a very unbiased and honest way, we will realize that to a large extent… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“The evidence shows that assurances that surveillance is only targeted at those who “have done something wrong” should provide little comfort, since a state… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“But witnesses incur responsibilities, as anyone who has ever seen a traffic accident and had to go to court to testify, knows. In the… — Erna Paris 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
A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing. — Esther Meynell Copy Share Image
My political views have never made me insensitive to the pain and suffering caused to the innocent victims of events such as the Warrington… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
Antidepressants are the biggest fraud in the world. Number one, Prozac gives you a royal soft-on like you wouldn't believe, and number two you… — Robert Evans Copy Share Image
I have clearly said we faced terrorist enemies who use Islam to justify slaughtering innocent people and we have to stop them and we… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Make no mistake: conversion therapy is not about 'praying away the gay.' It's an emotional torture against our most innocent citizens: our children. — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
I don't like small birds. They hop around so merrily outside my window, looking so innocent. but I know that secretly, they're watching my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You're lying through your fangs," Iggy accused. Fang tried to play innocent--but "innocent Fang" is an oxymoron, so it didn't work. — James Patterson Copy Share Image
If you're going to exude naivete, you can't really... walk out there like it's a Sting show. You can't be that well put together… — Frank Black Copy Share Image
I was born in Tyrone, 1956, for something I didn't do. I was innocent. But they gave me life. I still remember the midwife… — Kevin McAleer Copy Share Image
To be innocent is to bear the weight of the entire universe. It is to throw away the counterweight. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
We face a brutal enemy who will kill the innocent for one purpose and that is to gain control of the Middle East and… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect… — James T. Walsh Copy Share Image