Peter Medawar Quote

We wring our hands over the miscarriages of technology and take its benefactions for granted. We are dismayed by air pollution but not proportionately cheered up by, say, the virtual abolition of poliomyelitis.


Presidential Address, 1969


We wring our hands over the miscarriages of technology and take its benefactions for granted. We are dismayed by air pollution but not...

We wring our hands over the miscarriages of technology and take its benefactions for granted. We are dismayed by air pollution but not...

We wring our hands over the miscarriages of technology and take its benefactions for granted. We are dismayed by air pollution but not...

We wring our hands over the miscarriages of technology and take its benefactions for granted. We are dismayed by air pollution but not...