Peter Medawar Quote

All experimentation is criticism. If an experiment does not hold out the possibility of causing one to revise one's views, it is hard to see why it should be done at all.


Advice to a Young Scientist, Chapter 11 (p. 94), Basic Books, Inc. 1979


All experimentation is criticism. If an experiment does not hold out the possibility of causing one to revise one's views, it is hard to see why it...

All experimentation is criticism. If an experiment does not hold out the possibility of causing one to revise one's views, it is hard to see why it...

All experimentation is criticism. If an experiment does not hold out the possibility of causing one to revise one's views, it is hard to see why it...

All experimentation is criticism. If an experiment does not hold out the possibility of causing one to revise one's views, it is hard to see why it...