The art of research [is] the art of making difficult problems soluble by devising means of getting at them.
Peter MedawarThe attempt to discover and promulgate the truth is nevertheless an obligation upon all scientists, one that must be persevered in no matter what the rebuffsโfor otherwise what is the point in being a scientist?
Peter MedawarFor 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 preceisely regimented; there is poetry in science, but also a lot of bookkeeping.
Peter MedawarThe case I shall find evidence for is that when literature arrives, it expels science.
Peter Medawar