Peter Medawar Quotes

United Kingdom, Scientist
February 28, 1915 – October, 2, 1987.

Sir Peter Brian Medawar OM CBE FRS (28 February 1915 – 2 October 1987) was a British biologist born in Brazil, whose work on graft rejection and the discovery of acquired immune tolerance was fundamental to the practice of tissue and organ transplants.

Also known as Biologist

Creosote has a pretty technological smell.

Peter Medawar
- Pretty
The bells which toll for mankind are-most of them, anyway-like the bells of Alpine cattle; they are attached to our own necks, and it must be our fault if they do not make a cheerful and harmonious sound.

Peter Medawar

The attempt to discover and promulgate the truth is nevertheless an obligation upon all scientists, one that must be persevered in no matter what the rebuffs-for otherwise what is the point in being a scientist?

Peter Medawar
- Truth
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.

Peter Medawar
- Great
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

Peter Medawar
- Mind
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Peter Medawar
I do not propose to criticize the fatuous argument I have just outlined; here, to expound is to expose.

Peter Medawar