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Sir Peter Medawar : A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the dates of great battles and major discoveries. # Science and Scientists # History and Historians # Dating

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Hubert H Humphrey : " People in places many of us never heard of, whose names we can't pronounce or even spell, are speaking up for themselves. They speak in languages we once classified as exotic but whose mastery is now essential for our diplomats and businessmen. But what they say is very much the same the world over. They want a decent standard of living. They want human dignity and a voice in their own futures. They want their children to grow up strong and healthy and free. " # Science and Scientists # History and Historians # Dating

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Elias Canetti : " There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange. " # Science and Scientists # History and Historians # Dating

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Philip Crosby : " The great discoveries are usually obvious. " # Science and Scientists # History and Historians # Dating

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Albert Gyorgyi : " Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought. " # Science and Scientists # History and Historians # Dating

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Albert Gyorgyi : " A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. " # Science and Scientists # History and Historians # Dating

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Suzanne K Langer : " Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. " # Science and Scientists # History and Historians # Dating

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Ira Erwin : " The greatest discoveries have come from people who have looked at a standard situation and seen it differently. " # Science and Scientists # History and Historians # Dating

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Jeanette Winterson : " To avoid discovery I stay on the run. To discover things for myself I stay on the run. " # Science and Scientists # History and Historians # Dating

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Ralph Waldo Emerson : " If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries. " # Science and Scientists # History and Historians # Dating

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Karl Kraus : " The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pays itself when it thinks that something is taking too long. The world needed a discoverer of the North Pole, and in all areas of social activity, merit was less important here than opportunity. " # Science and Scientists # History and Historians # Dating

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Sir Peter Medawar: " The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it." # Ideas # Mind # Body

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Sir Peter Medawar: " Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself." # Wit

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Sir 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. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood." # Change # Youth # Age and Aging

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Sir Peter Medawar: " Scientists are entitled to be proud of their accomplishments, and what accomplishments can they call 'theirs' except the things they have done or thought of first? People who criticize scientists for wanting to enjoy the satisfaction of intellectual ownership are confusing possessiveness with pride of possession. Meanness, secretiveness and, sharp practice are as much despised by scientists as by other decent people in the world of ordinary everyday affairs; nor, in my experience, is generosity less common among them, or less highly esteemed." # Science and Scientists # Critics and Criticism # Pride

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Sir Peter Medawar: " Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It's an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever be erected on its ruins, which will remain for ever one of the saddest and strangest of all landmarks in the history of twentieth-century thought." # Psychoanalysis # Love Ended # Life and Living

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Sir Peter Medawar: " If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs." # Research # Politicians and Politics # Arts and Artists

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Sir Peter Medawar: " We cannot point to a single definitive solution of any one of the problems that confront us — political, economic, social or moral, that is, having to do with the conduct of life. We are still beginners, and for that reason may hope to improve. To deride the hope of progress is the ultimate fatuity, the last word in poverty of spirit and meanness of mind. There is no need to be dismayed by the fact that we cannot yet envisage a definitive solution of our problems, a resting-place beyond which we need not try to go." # Writers and Writing # Politicians and Politics # Love

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Sir Peter Medawar: " Simultaneous discovery is utterly commonplace, and it was only the rarity of scientists, not the inherent improbability of the phenomenon, that made it remarkable in the past. Scientists on the same road may be expected to arrive at the same destination, often not far apart." # Science and Scientists # Goals # Past

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Sir Peter Medawar: " A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the dates of great battles and major discoveries." # Science and Scientists # History and Historians # Dating

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Sir Peter Medawar: " Creosote has a pretty technological smell." # Technology

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