Quotes by Peter B. Medawar

“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.”

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

“If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.”

“The USA is so enormous, and so numerous are its schools, colleges and religious seminaries, many devoted to special religious beliefs ranging from the unorthodox to the dotty, that we can hardly wonder at its yielding a more bounteous harvest of gobb”