Medawar Quotes

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 B. Medawar

The USA is so enormous, and so numerous are its schools, colleges and religious seminaries, many devoted to special religious beliefs ranging from the unorthodox to the dotty, that we can hardly wonder at its yielding a more bounteous harvest of gobb. - Peter Medawar

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

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

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

Frankly, had Medawar not had this meltdown and not been able to fulfill his obligations on his Homeland Security project, there would have been no question about this at all. - Dana Rohrabacher