Notice: Undefined variable: part2 in /home/admin/web/fastsaying.com/public_html/contentPage.php on line 6

Notice: Undefined property: Memcache_Help::$_memcached_conf in /home/admin/web/fastsaying.com/public_html/_classesInfo.php on line 237

Notice: Undefined variable: title in /home/admin/web/fastsaying.com/public_html/contentPage.php on line 33
Peter B. Medawar quote: "If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility."

Warning: include(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/home/admin/web/meseed.com/public_html/VisitFormat.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/admin/web/fastsaying.com/public_html:/home/admin/tmp) in /home/admin/web/fastsaying.com/public_html/_header.php on line 194

Warning: include(/home/admin/web/meseed.com/public_html/VisitFormat.php): failed to open stream: Operation not permitted in /home/admin/web/fastsaying.com/public_html/_header.php on line 194

Warning: include(): Failed opening '/home/admin/web/meseed.com/public_html/VisitFormat.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/php') in /home/admin/web/fastsaying.com/public_html/_header.php on line 194

Notice: Undefined variable: visitFormat in /home/admin/web/fastsaying.com/public_html/_header.php on line 195

Notice: Undefined variable: views in /home/admin/web/fastsaying.com/public_html/contentPage.php on line 108

Notice: Undefined variable: update in /home/admin/web/fastsaying.com/public_html/_classesInfo.php on line 321


Notice: Undefined variable: removeAdsense in /home/admin/web/fastsaying.com/public_html/contentPage.php on line 167

If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.


Peter B. Medawar


Notice: Undefined variable: emoticonTitle in /home/admin/web/fastsaying.com/public_html/contentPage.php on line 253

Notice: Undefined variable: youtube_id in /home/admin/web/fastsaying.com/public_html/contentPage.php on line 293
  Email Quote to Friends
Notice: Undefined variable: youtube_id in /home/admin/web/fastsaying.com/public_html/contentPage.php on line 314
  Link to Quote   Create Short URL
Notice: Undefined variable: type in /home/admin/web/fastsaying.com/public_html/contentPage.php on line 362

Notice: Undefined variable: embedPaste in /home/admin/web/fastsaying.com/public_html/contentPage.php on line 366
  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more

Notice: Undefined variable: filename in /home/admin/web/fastsaying.com/public_html/contentPage.php on line 402
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Notice: Undefined variable: viewNewSite in /home/admin/web/fastsaying.com/public_html/contentPage.php on line 417

Notice: Undefined variable: removeAdsense in /home/admin/web/fastsaying.com/public_html/contentPage.php on line 420


Notice: Undefined variable: synonyms in /home/admin/web/fastsaying.com/public_html/contentPage.php on line 484

Warning: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable in /home/admin/web/fastsaying.com/public_html/contentPage.php on line 484

Notice: Undefined variable: isASearchEngine in /home/admin/web/fastsaying.com/public_html/contentPage.php on line 501

Notice: Undefined variable: sort in /home/admin/web/fastsaying.com/public_html/contentPage.php on line 530

Notice: Undefined variable: mem_del in /home/admin/web/fastsaying.com/public_html/_classesInfo.php on line 277

Related


Notice: Undefined variable: render in /home/admin/web/fastsaying.com/public_html/contentPage.php on line 565
England really is the birthplace, the heart and soul of football. If Barcelona had Liverpool's f...
XAVI
Well, Toronto, I consider to be the birthplace of my films. I've made three films and this is th...
JASON REITMAN
I've been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed - the birthplace ...
JOE BIDEN
Whenever I think of my birthplace, Walton-on-Thames, my reference first and foremost is the river. I...
JULIE ANDREWS
Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birt...
JON MEACHAM
The whole world is a man's birthplace.
CAECILIUS STATIUS
Most people don't know that Congo Square was originally a Muscogee ceremonial ground... in New O...
JOY HARJO
Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory.
HENRY ANATOLE GRUNWALD
Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in one's birthplace.
FREDERIC CHOPIN
We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and t...
IRWIN ROSE

More Peter B. Medawar


Notice: Undefined variable: sort in /home/admin/web/fastsaying.com/public_html/contentPage.php on line 600

Notice: Undefined variable: mem_del in /home/admin/web/fastsaying.com/public_html/_classesInfo.php on line 277
If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immens...
PETER B. MEDAWAR
Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the wor...
PETER B. MEDAWAR
If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility...
PETER B. MEDAWAR
Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the wor...
PETER MEDAWAR
How have people come to be taken in by The Phenomenon of Man? We must not underestimate the size of ...
PETER MEDAWAR
There is nothing distinctively scientific about the hypothetico-deductive process. It is not even di...
PETER MEDAWAR
I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of the conviction that...
PETER MEDAWAR
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
P. B. MEDAWAR
Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the wor...
SIR PETER MEDAWAR
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
SIR PETER MEDAWAR
If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensel...
SIR PETER MEDAWAR
Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It's an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur ...
SIR PETER MEDAWAR
Seeing results flow from my gifts is my greatest pleasure as a philanthropist - whether exonerating ...
PETER B. LEWIS
I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
B. B. KING
I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided ...
B. B. KING
I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on ...
B. B. KING
I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown o...
B. B. KING
Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high sc...
B. B. KING
Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: A...
B. B. KING
I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are Go...
B. B. KING
The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit asha...
B. B. KING
My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I w...
B. B. KING
Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I&...
B. B. KING
I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, b...
B. B. KING
Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you...
B. B. KING
Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
B. B. KING
I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wa...
B. B. KING
Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's...
B. B. KING
I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
B. B. KING
The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
B. B. KING
Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
B. B. KING
If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me...
B. B. KING
Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
B. B. KING
People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never di...
B. B. KING
We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. KING
I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. KING
Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. Wh...
B. B. KING
If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary ...
B. B. WARFIELD
I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I u...
B. B. KING
Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
B. B. KING
I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Er...
B. B. KING
I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, an...
B. B. KING
I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never th...
B. B. KING
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B. B. KING
When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are...
B. B. KING
I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in ...
B. B. KING
I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.
B. B. KING
'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thoug...
B. B. KING
If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything ...
B. B. KING
I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie [Ray Vaughan] missed on bo...
B. B. KING
When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on sta...
B. B. KING
I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g...
B. B. KING
I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g...
B. B. KING
I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music...
B. B. KING
My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucil...
B. B. KING
I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big...
B. B. KING
I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played,...
B. B. KING
The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
B. B. KING
The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com...
B. B. KING
I got a chance to ride today on a very nice bus and from my window I can see how beautiful this coun...
B. B. KING
My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger p...
B. B. KING
Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'c...
B. B. KING
Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here...
B. B. KING
I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist,...
B. B. KING
As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one ha...
B. B. KING
I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always o...
B. B. KING
We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. KING
I think the clock is ticking, yes. In fact, I know it is. Frank Sinatra sang about the September of ...
B. B. KING
When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. P...
B. B. KING
Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'...
B. B. KING
When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So ...
B. B. KING
In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caug...
B. B. KING
It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asl...
B. B. KING
I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two...
B. B. KING
I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. KING
My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her t...
B. B. KING
Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then...
B. B. KING
I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that ...
B. B. KING
I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking ...
B. B. KING
You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you...
B. B. KING
I've been a loner all the time throughout my life... I haven't been the best father... Many ...
B. B. KING
Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but ...
B. B. KING
I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unle...
B. B. KING
I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who ...
B. B. KING
What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, ...
B. B. KING
I never use that word, retire.
B. B. KING
I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
B. B. KING
The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com...
B. B. KING
I'm more careful about my hands than about what I eat and most anything else, because my hands h...
B. B. KING
I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew the...
B. B. KING
Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and the...
B. B. KING
A lot of people believe what other people say.
B. B. KING
If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're ...
B. B. KING
I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.
B. B. KING
When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace ...
B. B. KING
I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
B. B. KING
I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
B. B. KING
I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.
B. B. KING
Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blue...
B. B. KING
I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
B. B. KING
The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people...
B. B. KING
I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
B. B. KING
I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I li...
B. B. KING
If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
B. B. KING
If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without ...
B. B. KING
There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
B. B. KING
Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.
B. B. KING
I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
B. B. KING
I know I'm not everybody's cup of tea. I'm just me.
MEL B
When somebody says something as a joke, the British press take things and twist them.
MEL B
If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be n...
B. TRAVEN
Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight ...
B. WILBERFORCE
There is a fine line between dreams and reality, it's up to you to draw it.
B. QUILLIAM
When the bold branches
Bid farewell to rainbow leaves -
Welcome wool sweaters.
B. CYBRILL
I don't think I represent all things dubstep. I just like clubbing, so those are the sounds I...
KATY B
I love clubbing - the abandon of it, the release of dancing, and being with my friends and the peopl...
KATY B
I came up with, 'I am a lost boy from Neverland, usually hanging out with Peter Pan' and rec...
RUTH B
I went down to my keyboard and was playing random chords, and the one line I kept repeating was, ...
RUTH B
No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcom...
B. DODGE
I felt like that was my calling. I just didn't know how I was going to get my voice out of Edmon...
RUTH B
If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be ...
B. TRAVEN
Think positively, the way you think will describe you.
ABHIYANDA B.
Be afraid, when you feel always fearless
ABHIYANDA B.
My mum enrolled me in this free dance class because I had so much energy in the night-time, and she ...
MEL B
Don't try hard to explain, but try hard to prove it.
ABHIYANDA B.
We lived in an age where fake is a must.
ABHIYANDA B.
yepp it's ok, i know you dont care at all, but i still have to make you smile, cause i love seeing y...
ABHIYANDA B.
I'm just me. I'm just very opinionated. I react to whatever I see. If it's good, it'...
MEL B
When Duncan did arrive a half hour later, I hugged him and didn't let go. He seemed a little embarra...
B. ALSTON
In fact, life of the virtual world are the ones who wearing mask.
ABHIYANDA B.
Don't judge me unfriendly, I'm not arrogant, I'm not shy i just like quietness, cause i can nurture ...
ABHIYANDA B.
You're a user that will never access the password to my heart
NATALIA B.
Am I still a hero if the only person I save is
myself?
Am I still a villain if the only pe...
B. DAMANI
He(Prophet Muhammad) was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar ...
B. SMITH
We're all like rock, scissors and paper. unbeaten also can be defeated easily.
ABHIYANDA B.
at least, make one proof of yourself, someday will be needed for your existence.
ABHIYANDA B.
you can change your mood everyday but not with your feelings
ABHIYANDA B.
If we never make it, then don't ever to fake it... sometimes accepting a failure will make you be an...
ABHIYANDA B.
I love J. K. Rowling. If I could meet any person, I would meet her.
RUTH B
I thought it was a prank. There is no way six different major labels trying to reach out to me. But ...
RUTH B
I went to my first drum n' bass rave when I was 16 and remember being terrified. Looking around,...
KATY B
Peter Pan is kind of this metaphor for someone or something that makes you feel at home, that brings...
RUTH B
Her eyes were the color of whiskey and grace. Moments with her always felt like getting drunk on Sun...
B. DEVINE
My brother and I do trivia quizzes all the time.
RUTH B
This morning after yoga, I laid in the grass and watched the white clouds go by as the Earth turned ...
ERIKA B.
What I wanted to make sure of is that I wasn't just tagged as a Viner.
RUTH B
How lonely it is!
To be drowning,
in a place
where everyone can swim.
B. DAMANI
There's a depth in you that has yet been discovered.
Abyssal and buried
it terrifies your ...
B. YOUNGZ
I’d likte to welcome you to the land of free, where healthy, wealthy, happy people contribute to t...
B. BARMANBEK
In the world union, prosperity is a science, self-interest a new religion, peace is at hand and the ...
B. BARMANBEK
She liked who she was becoming, despite the pain and frustration it brought.
B. BARMANBEK
May you have the courage to choose love over hate.
LETA B.
I used to play the piano when I was younger, and I loved Alicia Keys. I wanted to be Alicia Keys; sh...
KATY B
Shouting at people keeps you alive, healthy, young, fresh.
PETER CAPALDI
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
PETER MARSHALL
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
PETER DRUCKER
The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearin...
PETER DAVISON
If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a rive...
PETER BENCHLEY
There are wars being fought! Who cares what I'm doing on a Saturday night? I'm not even a ce...
PETER DINKLAGE
The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot o...
PETER BENENSON
My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their compa...
PETER ZUMTHOR
The celebration... you cannot practice it or anything. It's a moment when the excitement of your...
PETER BONDRA
When I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I join...
PETER COYOTE
To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
IRENE PETER
Always be sincere, even when you don't mean it.
IRENE PETER
Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
IRENE PETER
Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
IRENE PETER
Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
IRENE PETER
Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.
IRENE PETER
There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The w...
PETER CAPALDI
The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.
PETER MARSHALL
Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges.
PETER BENCHLEY
The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It's important to k...
PETER LINDBERGH
New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.
PETER JACKSON
The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.
PETER SINGER
Almost any shark, three or four feet long, could kill a human being if it chose to do it. It could m...
PETER BENCHLEY
Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming indi...
PETER DRUCKER
My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
PETER DRUCKER
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
PETER DRUCKER
I spent two years at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, and then some New York types saw me there a...
PETER MACNICOL
Between November 23, 2002, and January 11, 2003, al-Qahtani was interrogated for 48 days at Guantana...
PETER BERGEN
I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's go...
PETER DIAMANDIS
Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't...
PETER DRUCKER
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
PETER DRUCKER
Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.
PETER DRUCKER
Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
PETER DRUCKER
I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.
PETER TOSH
There are no training courses to make people bishops. You have to learn on the job.
PETER HOLLINGWORTH
Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's t...
PETER SHAFFER
A man can submit today in order to resist tomorrow. My submission had been such. And because I had n...
PETER ABRAHAMS
I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo.
PETER STEELE
Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity.
PETER ORSZAG
I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organizati...
PETER SHAFFER
Each year, billions of animals are subjected to cruelty on factory farms, feed lots, and slaughterho...
PETER DINKLAGE
You've got to remember, Vermont is a lot of beautiful mountains with valleys and small brooks th...
PETER SHUMLIN
I love criticism. Equitable Life went down because management wouldn't brook criticism, but if y...
PETER HARGREAVES
Even though Mr. Trump is a billionaire, he is still able to relate to average working men and women....
PETER NAVARRO
By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except w...
PETER YORK
It’s not just tougher out there. It’s become a situation where the contest is how much you can d...
PETER HART
Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand forbecause unless we stand...
PETER MARSHALL

Notice: Undefined variable: removeAdsense in /home/admin/web/fastsaying.com/public_html/_footer.php on line 2