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Peter Medawar Quotes: "The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all."

The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all.



Peter Medawar Quotes: "Is the Scientific Paper a Fraud?"

Is the Scientific Paper a Fraud?




Peter Medawar Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "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 it is true or not."

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 it is true or not.




Peter Medawar Quotes: "Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth."

Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth.



Peter Medawar Quotes: "The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it."

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



Peter Medawar Quotes: "The art of research [is] the art of making difficult problems soluble by devising means of getting at them."

The art of research [is] the art of making difficult problems soluble by devising means of getting at them.




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

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



Peter Medawar Quotes: "If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs."

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



Peter Medawar Quotes: "If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility."

If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.



Peter Medawar Quotes: "Heredity proposes and development disposes."

Heredity proposes and development disposes.



Peter Medawar Quotes: "An experiment not worth doing is not worth doing well."

An experiment not worth doing is not worth doing well.




Peter Medawar Quotes: "Science is the art of the solvable."

Science is the art of the solvable.



Peter Medawar Quotes: "I regret my disbelief in God."

I regret my disbelief in God.



Peter Medawar Quotes: "Scientists who think science consists of unprejudiced data-gathering without speculation are merely cows grazing on the pasture of knowledge."

Scientists who think science consists of unprejudiced data-gathering without speculation are merely cows grazing on the pasture of knowledge.



Peter Medawar Quotes: "The case I shall find evidence for is that when literature arrives, it expels science."

The case I shall find evidence for is that when literature arrives, it expels science.



Peter Medawar Quotes: "There is much else in the literary idiom of nature-philosophy: nothing-buttery, for example, always part of the minor symptomatology of the bogus."

There is much else in the literary idiom of nature-philosophy: nothing-buttery, for example, always part of the minor symptomatology of the bogus.



Peter Medawar Quotes: "I do not propose to criticize the fatuous argument I have just outlined; here, to expound is to expose."

I do not propose to criticize the fatuous argument I have just outlined; here, to expound is to expose.



Peter Medawar Quotes: "To deride the hope of progress is the ultimate fatuity, the last word in poverty of spirit and meanness of mind."

To deride the hope of progress is the ultimate fatuity, the last word in poverty of spirit and meanness of mind.



Peter Medawar Quotes: "It is the great glory as well as the great threat of science that everything which is in principle possible can be done if the intention to do it is sufficiently resolute."

It is the great glory as well as the great threat of science that everything which is in principle possible can be done if the intention to do it is sufficiently resolute.



Peter Medawar Quotes: "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 dates of great battles and major discoveries."

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 dates of great battles and major discoveries.



Peter Medawar Quotes: "It is not envy or malice, as so many people think, but utter despair that has persuaded many educational reformers to recommend the abolition of the English public schools."

It is not envy or malice, as so many people think, but utter despair that has persuaded many educational reformers to recommend the abolition of the English public schools.



Peter Medawar Quotes: "I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of the conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing on whether it is true or not."

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of the conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing on whether it is true or not.