Peter Medawar Quote

A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the dates of great battles and major discoveries.


(with Jean Medawar), Aristotle to Zoos: A Philosophical Dictionary of Biology (1985)


A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the dates of great...

A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the dates of great...

A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the dates of great...

A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the dates of great...