Matter Quote by Peter Medawar

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

Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth.

— Peter Medawar

An experiment not worth doing is not worth doing well.

— Peter Medawar

Science is the art of the solvable.

— Peter Medawar

[A certain class of explanations in science are] analgesics that dull the ache of incomprehension without removing the cause.

— Peter Medawar

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

If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.

— Peter Medawar

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

The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

— Peter Medawar

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

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

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