86 Quotes by Peter Medawar

Bilim açısından sakıncalı bir başka görüş de, astlarına emirler verip onların etrafta koşuşturarak emirleri yerine getirmelerinin bilimsel araştırma yapmak olduğu sanısıdır.

Genç bilimciler işlerin yürütülmesinde yeterince söz sahibi olmamaktan yakınıp, sonra da onlara bu hakları kullanabilecekleri komitelerde görev verildiği zaman bundan şikayet etme yoluna gitmemelidirler.

Bilimsel araştırma, sonuçları açıklanmadan önce bitmiş sayılmaz.

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.

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.

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

If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.

To abdicate from the rule of reason and substitute for it an authentication of belief by the intentness and degree of conviction with which we hold it can be perilous and destructive. Religious beliefs give a spurious spiritual dimension to tribal enmities.

It is naïve to suppose that the acceptance of evolution theory depends upon the evidence of a number of so-called "proofs"; it depends rather upon the fact that the evolutionary theory permeates and supports every branch of biological science, much as the notion of the roundness of the earth underlies all geodesy and all cosmological theories on which the shape of the earth has a bearing. Thus antievolutionism is of the same stature as flat-earthism.