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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.


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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.



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



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