"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 rebuffsâ€”for otherwise what is the point in being a scientist?"

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Source : Peter Brian Medawar, J. S. Medawar (1985). “Aristotle to Zoos: A Philosophical Dictionary of Biology”, p.196, Harvard University Press

Peter Medawar

#Matter Quotes #Truth Is Quotes #Scientist Quotes

“All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.”
“I am opposed to both cloning and the destruction of human embryos and adamantly opposed to funding of embryonic stem cell research.”
“Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.”
“Twin miracles of mascara, her eyes looked like the corpses of two small crows that had crashed into a chalk cliff.”

Source : Clive James (2017). “Clive James On Television”, p.486, Pan Macmillan
“In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.”
“God's providence is not in baskets lowered from the sky, but through the hands and hearts of those who love him. The lad without food and without shoes made the proper answer to the cruel-minded woman who asked, "But if God loved you wouldn't he send you food and shoes?" The boy replied, "God told someone, but he forgot."”

Source : George Arthur Buttrick (1951). “The Interpreter's Bible: General articles on the New Testament. Matthew. Mark”, Abingdon Pr
“I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.”
“The best children's book writers are not people who have kids, but people who write from the child within themselves.”

Source : "The World Doesn't Need Another Rhyming Tooth Fairy Story: A Conversation with Children's Book Agent Andrea Brown". Interview with Anna Olswanger, www.underdown.org. 1998.

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