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The similarity between them is not the taxonomic key to some other, deeper, affinity, and our recognizing its existence marks the end, not the inauguration, of a train of thought.

— Peter Medawar

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

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."

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.

If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.

Karl Popper’s conception of the scientific process is that is realistic – it gives a pretty fair picture of what goes on in real life laboratories.

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