The Strange Case Of The Spotted Mice Quotes

“For a scientist must indeed be freely imaginative and yet skeptical, creative and yet a critic. There is a sense in which he must be free, but another in which his thought must be very precisely regimented; there is poetry in science, but also a lot of bookkeeping.”
― Peter B. Medawar, The Strange Case Of The Spotted Mice: And Other Classic Essays on Science

“If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility;”
― Peter Medawar, The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice: and Other Classic Essays on Science

“Is the scientific paper a fraud?”
― Peter Medawar, The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice: and Other Classic Essays on Science