Peter Medawar Quotes
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.
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Twenty years ago my parents wouldn't know who the X-Men were, and now everybody knows that stuff. It means that deconstruction of the superhero is something you can do. All those movies have led to a point where we can finally have 'Watchmen' with a Superman character who doesn't want to save the world and a Batman who has trouble in bed.
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We are living in difficult times. There are a lot of people out of work - am I going to stand there and whinge? No, because I am lucky to have such a wonderful job.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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Working with Angela Bassett is by far the best. I've watched and admired her for years. I'm very intrigued by her work. She's so cool. I still call her 'Mom' when I see her.
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I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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Yes, I'm proud to be indigenous. I'm half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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I love having my hoop earrings. Just regular gold hoops.
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I think I can get away, sometimes, with walking in the streets and not getting noticed. I like that. I want my work to get noticed, not me. And it's slowly getting there, which is good.
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Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.
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I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.
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When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it.
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I feel very privileged that I get to spend my life telling stories that mean something to people.
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The single common denominator of men and women who achieve great things is a sense of destiny.
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Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.
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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.
