If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.
Peter MedawarSimultaneous discovery is utterly commonplace, and it was only the rarity of scientists, not the inherent improbability of the phenomenon, that made it remarkable in the past. Scientists on the same road may be expected to arrive at the same destination, often not far apart.
Peter MedawarThe art of research [is] the art of making difficult problems soluble by devising means of getting at them.
Peter MedawarIn no sense other than an utterly trivial one is reproduction the inverse of chemical disintegration. It is a misunderstanding of genetics to suppose that reproduction is only 'intended' to make facsimiles, for parasexual processes of genetical exchange are to be found in the simplest living things.
Peter Medawar