Peter Medawar Quote

Observation is the generative act in scientific discovery. For all its aberrations, the evidence of the senses is essentially to be relied upon—provided we observe nature as a child does, without prejudices and preconceptions, but with that clear and candid vision which adults lose and scientists must strive to regain.


Medawar, Peter (1982). Pluto's Republic, p. 99. Oxford: Oxford University Press.


Observation is the generative act in scientific discovery. For all its aberrations, the evidence of the senses is essentially to be relied...

Observation is the generative act in scientific discovery. For all its aberrations, the evidence of the senses is essentially to be relied...

Observation is the generative act in scientific discovery. For all its aberrations, the evidence of the senses is essentially to be relied...

Observation is the generative act in scientific discovery. For all its aberrations, the evidence of the senses is essentially to be relied...