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Scientists who think science consists of unprejudiced data-gathering without speculation are merely cows grazing on the pasture of knowledge.
— 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.
— Peter Medawar
Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth.
— Peter Medawar
An experiment not worth doing is not worth doing well.
— Peter Medawar
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
The case I shall find evidence for is that when literature arrives, it expels science.
— Peter Medawar
To deride the hope of progress is the ultimate fatuity, the last word in poverty of spirit and meanness of mind.
— Peter Medawar
If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.
— Peter Medawar
[A certain class of explanations in science are] analgesics that dull the ache of incomprehension without removing the cause.
— Peter Medawar
Because we have learned to believe negativity is more realistic, it appears more real than any positive voice.
— Bell Hooks
Honey, Maggie Jones said. Victoria. Listen to me. You're here now. This is where you are.
— Kent Haruf
But all that being said about modulation, if you're serving people delicious food, they won't complain.
— Sally Schneider
Is the scientific paper a fraud?
— Peter Medawar
Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions.
— Sri Aurobindo
Librarians are almost always very helpful and often almost absurdly knowledgeable. Their skills are probably underestimated and largely underemployed.
— Charles Medawar
I regret my disbelief in God.
— Peter Medawar
The art of research [is] the art of making difficult problems soluble by devising means of getting at them.
— Peter Medawar
The thing about the truth was that it sometimes tore apart the perfect world we forced ourselves into believing existed.
— Nicole Sobon
Heredity proposes and development disposes.
— Peter Medawar
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
— Peter Medawar
Science is the art of the solvable.
— Peter Medawar