Peter Medawar Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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As chief elections officer, it's my job to protect the integrity of the ballot.
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Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I have never known stage-fright at any time.
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For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.
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Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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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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Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.
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The definition of 'morbid' is an unhealthy preoccupation with death. Unfortunately, there's no word to mean the perfectly healthy preoccupation with death, which is what I have.
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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Your own shoes are hard enough to fill, but somebody else's are even tougher.
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Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?
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My biggest dream and my biggest accomplishment was to be on HBO and 'True Detective.' It was a show that I just fell in love with.
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Here is Menard's own intimate forest: 'Now I am traversed by bridle paths, under the seal of sun and shade...I live in great density...Shelter lures me. I slump down into the thick foliage...In the forest, I am my entire self. Everything is possible in my heart just as it is in the hiding places in ravines. Thickly wooded distance separates me from moral codes and cities.
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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.
