"I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not."

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Source : Peter Brian Medawar (1981). “Advice to a young scientist”

Peter Medawar

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“I'm aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.”
“Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.”
“Credulity is perhaps a weakness almost inseparable from eminently truthful characters.”
“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”
“I feel myself becoming the fearless person I have dreamt of being. Have I arrived? No. But I'm constantly evolving and challenging myself to be unafraid to make mistakes.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I have my favourite fashion decade, yes, yes, yes: 60s. It was a sort of little revolution; the clothes were amazing but not too exaggerated.”

Source : Harper's Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com.au. August 10, 2010.
“I have always been caught by the pull of the unremarkable, by the easily missed, infinitely nourishing beauty of the mundane.”
“Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, "the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.".”

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