The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein it rejects it.
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If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.Peter Medawar
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Scientists are people of very dissimilar temperaments doing different things in very different ways. Among scientists are collectors, classifiers and compulsive tidiers-up many are detectives by temperament and many are explorers some are artists and others artisans. There are poet-scientists and philosopher-scientists and even a few mystics.
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Among scientists are collectors, classifiers, and compulsive tidiers-up many are detectives by temperament and many are explorers some are artists and others artisans.
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.
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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.
Peter Medawar
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