I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that … - Peter Medawar

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Peter Medawar

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

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A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the dates of great battles and major discoveries.

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Deductivism in mathematical literature and inductivism in scientific papers are simply the postures we choose to be seen in when the curtain goes up and the public sees us. The theatrical illusion is shattered if we ask what goes on behind the scenes. In real life discovery and justification are almost always different processes.

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To deride the hope of progress is the ultimate fatuity, the last word in poverty of spirit and meanness of mind.

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Scientists who think science consists of unprejudiced data-gathering without speculation are merely cows grazing on the pasture of knowledge.

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