Books Quote by Peter Medawar Download Open image “The case I shall find evidence for is that when literature arrives, it expels science.” — Peter Medawar ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Cases Evidence Literature Science
Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt. These heavy… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Modern science kills God and takes his place on the vacant throne. Science is the sole legitimate arbiter of all relavent truth. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
I find the attempt to find things out, which scientists are possessed by, to be as human as breathing, or feeding, or sex. And… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
No one suggests that writing about science will turn the entire world into a model of judgment and creative thought. It will be enough… — Isaac Asimov 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; but there is one high poetic fancy in the New Atlantis that stays in the mind after all its fancies and inventions have been forgotten. In the New Atlantis, an island kingdom lying in very distant… — Peter Medawar Copy Share
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
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