Peter Medawar Quotes

What a person thinks on his own without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of the other people is even in the best case rather paltry and monotonous.

Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper and immediate object of science is the acquirement, or communication of truth; the proper and immediate object of poetry is the communication of immediate pleasure.

If you are what you eat, in my case, I'd be sweet so come and get some.

The average man cannot believe that an artist may be as serious and highminded an observer of life as the professed man of science.

In case you're an alien and you're reading this: BITE ME.

Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil?

In case you haven't noticed, I'm a lover not a fighter.

Mathematics is really an art, not a science. You could say science also is an art. So I would say the difference is something you can't really describe - you can only recognize. You hear somebody playing the violin, and it was Fritz Kreisler or it was somebody else, and you can tell the difference. It is so in almost every art. We just don't understand why it is that there are just a few people who are just completely off the scale and the rest of them are just mediocre. And we don't know why. But I say it's certainly true of mathematics.

Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.

In the case of Wilderpeople, I walked on the first day with some apprehension actually; because it doesn't come anywhere close to anything I've really played before, this part.

A jury could very well conclude that this is a case of buyer's remorse.

In case of doubt, attack.

We are no longer the same after hearing certain sounds, and this is more the case when we hear organized sounds, sounds organized by another human being: music.

No one should be judge in his own case.

The golden rule to apply in all such cases is resolutely to refuse to have what millions cannot.

I could never begin a poem: 'When I am dead' In case it tempted Fate, and Fate gave way.

In case you're wondering why Guy Fieri is here, he won a contest.

We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.

The object of science is knowledge; the objects of art are works. In art, truth is the means to an end; in science, it is the only end. Hence the practical arts are not to be classed among the sciences

If there's another thing that sportswriting teaches you, it is that there are no transcendent themes in life. In all cases things are here and they're over, and that has to be enough.

Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.

A person in the business of defending criminal cases is going to live in controversy all of his or her life.

There are three kinds of brains. The one understands things unassisted, the other understands things when shown by others, the third understands neither alone nor with the explanations of others.

There being no absolute and universal standard of right, terrorism must be held to be wrong in every case.

Our brains deal exclusively with special-case experiences.