Peter Medawar

“In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.”

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

“Science is the art of the soluble.”

“The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.”

“Humility is not a state of mind conducive to the advancement of learning.”

“It is a great nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.”

“If a person can't communicate, the very least he can do is to shut up.”

“Genetics is, of all sciences, the one most likely to be abused.”

“A scientist is a man who can do very difficult things, but who cannot do easy ones.”

“It is the great glory of inquiry that it is endless.”

“Scientific discovery, or the formulation of a scientific theory, starts with an imaginative preconception of what the truth might be.”

“The bells that toll for mankind are—most of them, anyway—like the bells on Alpine cattle; they are attached to our own necks, and it must be our fault if they do not make a cheerful and harmonious sound.”