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Peter Medawar was a British biologist and immunologist recognized for his work in transplantation immunology. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1960 for his discovery of immunological tolerance.

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“The purpose of scientific enquiry is not to compile an inventory of factual information, nor to build up a totalitarian world picture of natural Laws in which every event that is not compulsory is forbidden. We should think of it rather as a logically articulated structure of justifiable beliefs about nature.”

Thinking World Should Law Purpose Belief Natural Events Information Structure Forbidden Natural Law Scientific Method Factual Compulsory Inventory Enquiry

Book:Induction and intuition in scientific thought

Source: Induction and intuition in scientific thought

“It is not envy or malice, as so many people think, but utter despair that has persuaded many educational reformers to recommend the abolition of the English public schools.”

People Thinking School Despair Educational Envy Public School Malice Abolition Reformers Utter Despair

Author:Peter Medawar

“It is a truism to say that a good experiment is precisely that which spares us the exertion of thinking: the better it is, the less we have to worry about its interpretation, about what it really means.”

Thinking Mean Worry Experiments Interpretation Spares Really Mean Exertion Truism

Book:Induction and intuition in scientific thought

Source: Induction and intuition in scientific thought

“The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all.”

Thinking Term Alternatives

Book:The Life Science: Current Ideas of Biology

Source: The Life Science: Current Ideas of Biology

“Scientists who think science consists of unprejudiced data-gathering without speculation are merely cows grazing on the pasture of knowledge.”

Thinking Past Science Knowledge Scientist Data Cows Gathering Speculation Pastures Grazing

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“No scientist is admired for failing in the attempt to solve problems that lie beyond his competence. ... Good scientists study the most important problems they think they can solve. It is, after all, their professional business to solve problems, not merely to grapple with them.”

Thinking Important Problem Science Lying Study Failing Scientist Solve Competence

Author:Peter Medawar

About the Author

Born: February 28, 1915
Died: October 2, 1987
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 80

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Advice to a young scientistRelated source material

The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on ScienceRelated source material

Induction and intuition in scientific thoughtRelated source material

The Threat and the Glory: Reflections on Science and ScientistsRelated source material

Aristotle to Zoos: A Philosophical Dictionary of BiologyRelated source material

Memoir of a thinking radish: an autobiographyRelated source material

The Life Science: Current Ideas of BiologyRelated source material

The hope of progress: a scientist looks at problems in philosophy, literature and scienceRelated source material

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