"For a scientist must indeed be freely imaginative and yet skeptical, creative and yet a critic. There is a sense in which he must be free, but another in which his thought must be very preceisely regimented; there is poetry in science, but also a lot of bookkeeping."

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Source : Peter Brian Medawar (1996). “The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science”, p.63, Oxford University Press, USA

Peter Medawar

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“I was in the Chilli Peppers at the time and I asked myself, would I be able to wear a sock on my genitals at the age of forty and they proved me wrong because I guess they're still doing it.”
“A true friend sees the good in everything, and brings out the best in the worst of things.”
“I feel one step closer to BeyoncÃ© now that we both have our own clothing lines.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“The participation in European elections was always not very exciting. People are very interested in European issues, but they don't see the person who is representing Europe.”
“I feel like every time I go out I want to do a good job. I want people to say that he's just as good at stand-up as he is in some of the movies I've seen him in, so I try to do the best every time I go out there.”

Source : "Chris Tucker on Silver Linings Playbook and his intermittent film career". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. December 14, 2012.
“I started DJing, breakdancing and MCing in the '70s and I got my record deal in 1979 with 'Christmas Rap.'”
“She's lonely and wounded and very vulnerable and it really is a story about people at the heart of it all.”
“I would rather be called a character actor than a star.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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