quotations

[kaberett]

There is poetry in science, but there is also a lot of book-keeping. -- Peter Medawar

Comments

[silveradept]

The poetry often comes from the book-keeping, I find.

[vass]

I like that one very much. I followed the link and liked all the other quotations there except the one against psychoanalytic theory, at which point I had my usual stubbed toe reaction to that. I can understand a scientist reacting against its inclusion in science, as a field, but that does not make it worthless or a con.