"Is the Scientific Paper a Fraud?"

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Source : Peter Brian Medawar (1996). “The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science”, p.33, Oxford University Press, USA

Peter Medawar

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“Very few people know the real meaning of friendship. More often than not, there is too much emphasis on sentiment, and too little on action. Metta is something that must be lived.”
“Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember how keenly I felt this when in the 1890s. I received the Darwin Medal and the Huxley Medal. When one is old, one wants no encouragement and one goes on with one's work to the extent of one's power, because it has become habitual.”
“The sad fact is that the same terrorist scenarios, if they occurred in five different States, there could be five different sets of responses to the American people. We need, at a minimum, a level of coordination on communicating threats to the public.”
“There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.”
“I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.”
“If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention.”
“A reasonable agriculture would do its best to emulate nature. Rather than change the earth to suit a crop... it would diversify its crops to suit the earth”

Source : Verlyn Klinkenborg (2013). “More Scenes from the Rural Life”, p.109, Princeton Architectural Press
“That's something lacking in a lot of modern-day families - just talking. It's almost a lost art form.”

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