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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: 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: Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth.

Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth.

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: Scientific reasoning is a kind of dialogue between the possible and the actual, between what might be and what is in fact the case.

Scientific reasoning is a kind of dialogue between the possible and the actual, between what might be and what is in fact the case.

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: 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: 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: Is the scientific paper a fraud?

Is the scientific paper a fraud?

Peter Medawar quotes: I regret my disbelief in God.

I regret my disbelief in God.

Peter Medawar quotes: Science is the art of the solvable.

Science is the art of the solvable.

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: Heredity proposes and development disposes.

Heredity proposes and development disposes.

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: 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: [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.