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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

You don't question where the music comes from, because it all comes from God. — Timbaland

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

You are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything ... — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Remember that only love conquers fear. — Marissa Burt

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

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history. — Robert Anton Wilson

I mean, there are so many of his songs that I like that I could easily do that one day. — Bryan Ferry

Life, by nature, is a terminal illness. — Dylan Moore

This is what it's all about. From what I could see, you could get a bunch of people together, whip up the press and have some impact. — William Safire

although she shook her head. — Shirley Jackson

Is the scientific paper a fraud? — Peter Medawar

I regret my disbelief in God. — Peter Medawar

Librarians are almost always very helpful and often almost absurdly knowledgeable. Their skills are probably underestimated and largely underemployed. — Charles Medawar

Science is the art of the solvable. — Peter Medawar

I had a friend who had been teaching music for a long time, and he knew a bunch of teachers, so I just put up the money and started a school. — Flea

When did it become unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage? 1791? 1868, when the 14th Amendment was adopted? — Antonin Scalia

I tend to wear monochromatic outfits - all one colour from head to toe. I did that when I was younger and still do that to this day. — Suzy Amis

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

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

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

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful. — Seneca.

If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke? — Steven Wright

Heredity proposes and development disposes. — Peter Medawar

Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression. — Taslima Nasrin

There is something about yourself that you don't know ... — Jason Statham