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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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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It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.
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The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.
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The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.
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Sinbad is a great character for any actor to be able to play: impulsive, adventurous, passionate, loyal, and brave - a true hero.
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Sometimes your dreams come true, and it's a real drag.
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Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies.
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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.
