P B Medawar Famous Quotes



The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein it rejects it.


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"There is only one real deprivation, I decided this morning, and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most."
May Sarton

"The day is coming, and it ain't going to be long, when you ain't even gonna have to leave your living room. No more schools, nor more bodegas, no more tabernacles, no more cinneplexes. You're going to snuggle up to your fiber optics baby and bliss out."
Andrew Schneider

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
John Wayne

"To know that all is well, even if late will come to know it, is at least some gain."
Sophocles

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
Denis Diderot

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.
Aristotle

"Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour."
Saint Augustine

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.
Max Gluckman

"Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from."
Al Franken

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Napoleon Hill