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Peter Medawar

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in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,, Brazil

February 28, 1915

Died

October 02, 1987

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	Advice To A Young Scientist (Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Series) 3.78 avg rating — 658 ratings — published 1979 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Limits of Science 3.80 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 1984	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pluto's Republic: Incorporating The Art of the Soluble and Induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought 3.88 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 1982 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Strange Case Of The Spotted Mice: And Other Classic Essays on Science by Peter Medawar, Rodger Jackman (Photographer), Stephen Jay Gould (Foreword by) 3.77 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 1996 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memoir of a Thinking Radish: An Autobiography 3.76 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1986 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Art of the Soluble: Creativity and Originality in Science 3.65 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1969 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought: Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (vol. 75) 3.78 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1969 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Threat and the Glory: Reflections on Science and Scientists 3.58 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1990 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aristotle to Zoos: A Philosophical Dictionary of Biology by Peter Medawar, Jean Medawar (Editor) 3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1983 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Life Science: Current Ideas in Biology by Peter Medawar, J.S. Medawar 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1977 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all.”
― P.B. Medawar

tags: evolution, science, thinking

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“The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.”
― P.B. Medawar

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“The spread of secondary and latterly of tertiary education has created a large population of people, often with well-developed literary and scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytical thought.”
― Peter Medawar

tags: critical-thinking, education

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