Peter Medawar Quotes
You have ... been told that science grows like an organism. You have been told that, if we today see further than our predecessors, it is only because we stand on their shoulders. But this [Nobel Prize Presentation] is an occasion on which I should prefer to remember, not the giants upon whose shoulders we stood, but the friends with whom we stood arm in arm ... colleagues in so much of my work.
Medawar, Peter B. "Nobel Banquet Speech." The Nobel Foundation, 10 Dec. 1960.
To the general public Ballard is a star—the man who found the Titanic. Whereas he acknowledges that this has helped him raise money for science, but it has also caused him problems in the scientific community. Most important scientific work is done by teams and they depend on others who have laid the groundwork before them. Few are the Einsteins and the Fermi’s who on their own produce great scientific achievements.
Akhito, then a very young man, had been under the tutelage of imperial and military men chosen for the task. Their racism and conviction of Japanese innate superiority persists to this day among many of the Japanese right.
Sir Peter Brian Medawar OM CBE FRS was a British biologist and writer, whose works on graft rejection and the discovery of acquired immune tolerance were fundamental to the medical practice of tissue and organ transplants. For his scientific works he is regarded as the "father of transplantation". He is remembered for his wit both in person and in popular writings. Famous zoologists such as Richard Dawkins referred to him as "the wittiest of all scientific writers", and Stephen Jay Gould as "the cleverest man I have ever known".
