The bells which toll for mankind are - most of them, anyway - like the bells of Alpine cattle; they are attached to our own necks, and it must be our fault if they do not make a cheerful and harmonious sound.
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 over whether i… - 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 over whether i…
- 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 th… - 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 th…
Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. - Peter Medawar
Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.
The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all. - Peter Medawar
The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all.
Scientists who think science consists of unprejudiced data-gathering without speculation are merely cows grazing on the pasture of knowledge. - Peter Medawar
Scientists who think science consists of unprejudiced data-gathering without speculation are merely cows grazing on the pasture of knowledge.
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 free, but anothe… - Peter Medawar
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 free, but anothe…
It can be said with complete confidence that any scientist of any age who wants to make important discoveries must study important problems. Dull or … - Peter Medawar
It can be said with complete confidence that any scientist of any age who wants to make important discoveries must study important problems. Dull or …
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - Peter Medawar
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
It is a common failing-and one that I have myself suffered from-to fall in love with a hypothesis and to be unwilling to take no for an answer. A lov… - Peter Medawar
It is a common failing-and one that I have myself suffered from-to fall in love with a hypothesis and to be unwilling to take no for an answer. A lov…
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