Peter B. Medawar Quotes

A virus is a piece of bad news wrapped in a protein. - Peter B. Medawar quote.

A virus is a piece of bad news wrapped in a protein.
— Peter B. Medawar National Geographic

If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility. - Peter B. Medawar quote.

If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.
— Peter B. Medawar Memoirs of a Thinking Radish: An Autobiography

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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 B. Medawar New Statesman

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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. There are port-scientists and philosopher-scientist and even a few mystics.
— Peter B. Medawar The Art of the Soluble

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