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

— 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.

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.

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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