Frases de Peter Brian Medawar
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Sir Peter Brian Medawar foi um biólogo britânico nascido no Brasil.

Foi agraciado com o Nobel de Fisiologia ou Medicina de 1960, por pesquisar o sistema imunológico dos animais. É a única pessoa nascida no Brasil laureada com um Prêmio Nobel. Wikipedia

✵ 28. Fevereiro 1915 – 2. Outubro 1987 • Outros nomes P. B. Medawar

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Peter Brian Medawar frases e citações

“Nós não podemos apontar a uma única solução definitiva de nenhum dos problemas que nos confrontam - políticos, econômicos, sociais ou morais, isto é, não temos que fazer com a conduta da vida. Nós somos novatos imóveis, e por essa razão podemos esperar melhorar. Derivar a esperança do progresso é a tolice final, a última palavra na pobreza do espírito e mesquinhez da mente. Não há nenhuma necessidade ficar desanimado pelo fato que nós não podemos ainda ter uma solução definitiva de nossos problemas, um descanso - lugar além do que nós não necessitamos tentar ir.”

Peter Brian Medawar

carta ao presidente da Associação Britânica para o Avanço da Ciência, Exeter, 3 de setembro de 1969

De vida , De esperança , De idade , Problema

“Um cientista não é mais um coletor e classificador de fatos do mesmo modo que historiador é um homem que submete e classifica uma cronologia das datas de grandes batalhas e descobertas importantes.”

Peter Brian Medawar

para Jean Medawar), Aristotle to Zoos: A Philosophical Dictionary of Biology (1985

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Peter Brian Medawar: Frases em inglês

“I once spoke to a human geneticist who declared that the notion of intelligence was quite meaningless, so I tried calling him unintelligent. He was annoyed, and it did not appease him when I went on to ask how he came to attach such a clear meaning to the notion of lack of intelligence. We never spoke again.”

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Fonte: 1970s, Advice to a Young Scientist (1979), p. 25, footnote to previous quotation.

“It is the great glory as well as the great threat of science that everything which is in principle possible can be done if the intention to do it is sufficiently resolute.”

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The Threat and the Glory, 1977
1970s

“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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with Jean Medawar) Aristotle to Zoos: A Philosophical Dictionary of Biology (1985
1980s

“I do not propose to criticize the fatuous argument I have just outlined; here, to expound is to expose.”

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1960s, Review of Teilhard de Chardin's "The Phenomenon of Man", 1961

“In spite of all the obstacles that Teilhard perhaps wisely puts in our way, it is possible to discern a train of thought in The Phenomenon of Man.”

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1960s, Review of Teilhard de Chardin's "The Phenomenon of Man", 1961

“Observation is the generative act in scientific discovery. For all its aberrations, the evidence of the senses is essentially to be relied upon—provided we observe nature as a child does, without prejudices and preconceptions, but with that clear and candid vision which adults lose and scientists must strive to regain.”

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Medawar, Peter (1982). Pluto's Republic, p. 99. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
1980s

“We shall not read it for its sociological insights, which are non-existent, nor as science fiction, because it has a general air of implausibility; but there is one high poetic fancy in the New Atlantis that stays in the mind after all its fancies and inventions have been forgotten. In the New Atlantis, an island kingdom lying in very distant seas, the only commodity of external trade is — light: Bacon's own special light, the light of understanding.”

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On Francis Bacon's New Atlantis
1960s, Presidential Address, 1969

“Only human beings guide their behaviour by a knowledge of what happened before they were born and a preconception of what may happen after they are dead; thus only humans find their way by a light that illuminates more than the patch of ground they stand on.”

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(with Jean Medawar) The Life Science, 1977
1970s

“But Watson had one towering advantage over all of them: in addition to being extremely clever he had something important to be clever about.”

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This is an advantage which scientists enjoy over most other people engaged in intellectual pursuits, and they enjoy it at all levels of capability. To be a first-rate scientist it is not necessary (and certainly not sufficient) to be extremely clever, anyhow in a pyrotechnic sense. One of the great social revolutions brought about by scientific research has been the democratization of learning. Anyone who combines strong common sense with an ordinary degree of imaginativeness can become a creative scientist, and a happy one besides, in so far as happiness depends upon being able to develop to the limit of one's abilities.
1960s, Lucky Jim, 1968

“No virus is known to do good: it has been well said that a virus is "a piece of bad news wrapped up in protein."”

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Peter Medawar

(with Jean Medawar) Aristotle to Zoos: A Philosophical Dictionary of Biology, 1983, p. 275.
1980s