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The spread of secondary and latterly of tertiary education has created a large population of people, often with well-developed literary and scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytical thought.

~ Peter Medawar

Peter Medawar Critical Thinking Education

The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all.

~ Peter Medawar

Peter Medawar Evolution Science Thinking

That there is indeed a limit upon science is made very likely by the existence of questions that science cannot answer and that no conceivable advance of science would empower it to answer… It is not to science, therefore but to metaphysics, imaginative literature or religion that we must turn for answers to questions having to do with first and last things.

~ Peter Medawar

Peter Medawar Existence Metaphysics Science

How have people come to be taken in by The Phenomenon of Man? We must not underestimate the size of the market for works of this kind [pseudoscience/'woo'], for philosophy-fiction. Just as compulsory primary education created a market catered for by cheap dailies and weeklies, so the spread of secondary and latterly tertiary education has created a large population of people, often with well-developed literary and scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytical thought.

~ Peter Medawar

Peter Medawar Analytical Thought Critical Thought Education Fiction Philosophy Pseudoscience Scepticism Science Skepticism Woo

For a scientist must indeed be freely imaginative and yet skeptical, creative and yet a critic. There is a sense in which he must be free, but another in which his thought must be very precisely regimented; there is poetry in science, but also a lot of bookkeeping.

~ Peter Medawar

Peter Medawar Creativity Critical Imagination Poetry Science Skepticism

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of the conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing on whether it is true or not.

~ Peter Medawar

Peter Medawar Advice Conviction Hypothesis Science Scientist Wishful Thinking

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

~ Peter Medawar

Peter Medawar Today Changes World
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