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How have people come to be taken in by The Phenomenon of Man? We must not underestimate the size of ...

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For a scientist must indeed be freely imaginative and yet skeptical, creative and yet a critic. Ther...

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The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice: And Other Classic Essays on Science

That there is indeed a limit upon science is made very likely by the existence of questions that sci...

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The Limits of Science

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of the conviction that...

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Advice To A Young Scientist

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the wor...

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The spread of secondary and latterly of tertiary education has created a large population of people,...

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

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Peter Medawar

Writer

Born: 1915-02-28

Died: 1987-10-02

Sir Peter Medawar (February 28, 1915 – October 2, 1987) was a Brazilian-born English scientist best known for his work on how the immune system rejects or accepts organ transplants. He was co-winner of the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet.More