Peter B Medawar Quotes

I like to think that when Medawar and his colleagues showed that immunological tolerance could be produced experimentally the new immunology was born. This is a science which to me has far greater potentialities both for practical use in medicine and for the better understanding of living process than the classical immunochemistry which it is incorporating and superseding. ~ Frank Macfarlane Burnet

The truth about people does not lie in what they say but what they do. ~ Peter B. Lockhart

A good person hates lies. A bad person hates the truth. ~ Peter B. Lockhart

From then on, it was even twistier B-roads through a country so photgenically rural that I half expected to meet Bilbo Baggins around the next corner - providing he'd taken to driving a Nissan Micra. ~ Ben Aaronovitch

If you lead, you will eventually serve with Judas or Peter. ~ Dan B. Allender

I hope these words will be of some help and comfort to those who read them.
Nobody knows when they will be tested and there are no right or wrong answers, we are all of us lost when tragedy comes to call. All we can ever do is to be there, give love and do the best we can, often that is all it needs. ~ Peter B. Forster

St. Peter, on my judgment day, will not ask me about the B-2 or my defense votes. He will ask me about my vote to protect innocent human life ... ~ Bob Dornan

67"You do not want to leave too, do you?" Jesus asked the Twelve.y 68Simon Peter answered him,z "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.a 69We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God."b ~ Anonymous

I really get a smile that people think they have a right to even suggest how I give my money away. I have no mandate to give a dime to anybody. ~ Peter B. Lewis

In the struggle between fantasy and reality, fantasy may win some battles, but eventually, and in every case, reality always wins the war. ~ Peter B. Lockhart

Everything I've learned about art was (a) because I was actually interested, or (b) I was actually interested in covering my ass because of what I was writing about. ~ Peter Schjeldahl

Peter had never been so forward ~ J.E.B. Spredemann

The younger generations look at the beliefs of their parents and simply say "Pffft". History judges us all in the end. ~ Peter B. Lockhart

The history of religion is the history of appalling violence, slaughter and sexual abuses, rationalised by the fairy tales of religious delusions. ~ Peter B. Lockhart

Defend the Hope When Peter commanded these believers to give a defense, what were they supposed to defend? Traditional apologists are almost unanimous here. They say the first order of business is "reasoning for the existence of God."116 Craig says we are to defend the plausibility of God's existence as being more likely than not.117 That is not at all what Peter was saying in 1 Peter 3:15. Rather, he was commanding all Christians to give a defense for "the hope" that was in them. And what was their "hope"? It was not the plausibility of God's existence as being more likely than not. Their hope was in Christ. ~ Clifford B. McManis

But that pain is then inflicted onto other people, often many other people, all because we lack the courage to stand up and be accountable for all the things both good and bad, we have done in our lives. So by lying, that pain, rather than staying where it belongs, with the person who has done something wrong, is handed out to the innocent. To be a liar therefore is to be a coward. ~ Peter B. Lockhart

It's interesting how Christians today completely ignore the four clear verses of Jesus saying his message is for Jews only, and they prefer to stick to the verse that justifies their religion, despite the fact they are not Jewish. ~ Peter B. Lockhart

Make no mistake dear reader, this Depression was deliberately visited upon the world by the corrupt enemy within the halls of power in the United States of America, who with their poison words of deceit, have in the name of free enterprise and prosperity, by the destruction of regulations put into place after the last Depression, have repeated history with this one. ~ Peter B. Lockhart

Just a middle-age man with all the privilege that unasked for gift affords. When in truth it seems, we see suffering as the province of children, mothers, wives and lovers. Broken, struck by the hand of a man's blind ambition, brutish strength. What of the gentle-man with the soft voice… ~ Peter B. Forster

However in recent times, the US and the whole world has been hit by a
financial Tsunami, because of beliefs which are now, to everyone in
hindsight, blatantly and obviously absurd. ~ Peter B. Lockhart

If you don't go to bed at night with your bones aching from wanting it, you don't really want it. When your bones ache from wanting something, nothing and nobody will stop you getting it. ~ Peter B. Lockhart

Sometimes I want to walk into a Christian Church, and or a Jewish Synagogue, and or a Muslim Mosque, and yell at the top of my lungs – "You people are all Crazy! ~ Peter B. Lockhart

I don't believe that laws against things that people do regularly, like safe and responsible use of marijuana, make any sense, ~ Peter B. Lewis

The joy of juxtaposition is endless. ~ Peter B. Lewis

2 Peter 1 1Simon Peter, a servanta and apostle of Jesus Christ,b To those who through the righteousnessc of our God and Savior Jesus Christd have received a faith as precious as ours: ~ Anonymous

Only human beings guide their behaviour by a knowledge of what happened before they were born and a preconception of what may happen after they are dead; thus only humans find their way by a light that illuminates more than the patch of ground they stand on. P. B. and J. S. MEDAWAR, The Life Science (1977) ~ Richard Dawkins

The China Bubble is the biggest
bubble in history, and the bigger the bubble, the bigger the bust. There
will be blood in the streets, and no doubt about it. Even whole countries
will go broke. ~ Peter B. Lockhart

the vast majority of Christians have not, and do not ever, read the Bible. They just read tiny little bits of it, if that, and accept the whole concept of their religion, without any thought at all. ~ Peter B. Lockhart

Seeing results flow from my gifts is my greatest pleasure as a philanthropist - whether exonerating a jailed innocent or completing a Frank Gehry building. I want to enjoy my philanthropy. ~ Peter B. Lewis

Peter Van Houten was the only person I'd ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it's
like to be dying, and (b) not have died. ~ John Green

Socrates put it perfectly in financial matters at least: "The majority is always wrong. ~ Peter B. Lockhart

Quoting E. B. White is the easiest way I know of to fool people into thinking that I am perceptive, witty, and wise. ~ Peter Behrens

Carrot-and-stick reinforcement' the behaviorists are telling us is needed for this bird to carry out these operations, thirteen different types of construction jobs? B. F. Skinner did a very good thing: in World War ~ William Peter Blatty

Believing without evidence is politely called religion, but more accurately called delusion. ~ Peter B. Lockhart

An artist, in my experience, is a man or woman of unusual talent and peculiar, highly individual sensibility, with an independent and probably contrary mind, driven by mysterious passions for which another word is neurosis. In getting from point A to point B, the neurotic goes via point Q. It's in that roundabout that people are either completely crippled and hopeless in life, or highly creative. ~ Peter Schjeldahl

If Christianity is true, this changes EVERYTHING. Christ's very last words to us in scripture were: "Behold, I make all things new." (Rev. 21:5) I hope you remember that most moving line in the most moving movie ever made, The Passion Of The Christ, when Christ turns to His mother on the way to Calvary, explaining the need for the Cross and the blood and the agony: "See, Mother, I make all things new." I hope you remember that line with your tear ducts, which connect to the heart, as well as with your ears, which connect to the brain. Christ changed every human being he ever met. In fact, He changed history, splitting it open like a coconut and inserting eternity into the split between B.C. and A.D. If anyone claims to have met Him without being changed, he has not met Him at all. When you touch Him, you touch lightning. ~ Peter Kreeft

In despair, I offer your readers their choice of the following definitions of entropy. My authorities are such books and journals as I have by me at the moment.
(a) Entropy is that portion of the intrinsic energy of a system which cannot be converted into work by even a perfect heat engine. - Clausius.
(b) Entropy is that portion of the intrinsic energy which can be converted into work by a perfect engine. - Maxwell, following Tait.
(c) Entropy is that portion of the intrinsic energy which is not converted into work by our imperfect engines. - Swinburne.
(d) Entropy (in a volume of gas) is that which remains constant when heat neither enters nor leaves the gas. - W. Robinson.
(e) Entropy may be called the 'thermal weight', temperature being called the 'thermal height.' - Ibid.
(f) Entropy is one of the factors of heat, temperature being the other. - Engineering.
I set up these bald statement as so many Aunt Sallys, for any one to shy at.
[Lamenting a list of confused interpretations of the meaning of entropy, being hotly debated in journals at the time.] ~ Sydney Herbert Evershed

MacDonald's cannot be sued because of
the toxic and deadly garbage they peddle to people to eat. What the US Government has done is give these peddlers of poison a license to kill like James Bond, but not with a gun, with a Hamburger. ~ Peter B. Lockhart

The major flaw with human beings is that despite all our cleverness and ingenuity we both tell and believe lies. ~ Peter B. Lockhart

I once tried hawking my own book around the pubs in the hope that, like the Salvation Army, I too could sell to the cerebrally relaxed. It was a disaster. I had beer thrown over me for being a) a nuisance, b) not as good as Wordsworth and c) a nancy for writing poetry in the first place. ~ Peter Finch

Words are not enough. Not mine, cut off at the throat before they breathe. Never forming, broken and swallowed, tossed into the void before they are heard. It would be easy to follow, fall to my knees, prostrate before the deli counter. Sweep the shelves clear, scatter the tins, pound the cakes to powder. Supermarket isles stretching out in macabre displays. Christmas madness, sad songs and mistletoe, packed car parks, rotten leaves banked up in corners. Forgotten reminders of summer before the storm. Never trust a promise, they take prisoners and wishes never come true. Fairy stories can have grim endings and I don't know how I will face the world without you. ~ Peter B. Forster

Any desert land that will grow big sage will produce more fortunes thatn most gold mines -- if you can only get the water. ~ Peter B. Kyne

The USA has neither the wisdom to stop
putting junk food into its children's bodies, nor junk education into it's
children's minds. Such a nation lacking in such real wisdom, must rapidly
make some radical changes or go to oblivion. ~ Peter B. Lockhart

There are over 100 Avestan words in the Bible, both in the Old and New Testaments, and Avestan is the sacred language of the Zoroastrians, only ever used by Zoroastrians in prayer and worship. ~ Peter B. Lockhart

There will be a lot of young men returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan, who have seen terrible things, and who know all about the "loved and lost", and they will be acting out their grief with reckless behaviour. When I see broken hearted young men, abusing alcohol and angry and trying to make sense of the senseless, I know and understand from my own experiences, something of what they have gone through. ~ Peter B. Lockhart

Therefore I call a spade a spade, and not a flat bladed instrument for the redistribution of granular matter. ~ Peter B. Lockhart

If everyone is doing it, and everyone thinks it is right – don't do it, because it's wrong. There is no easy road to riches. For most people there is no road to riches at all. ~ Peter B. Lockhart

People alone of all the resources can grow and develop. ~ Peter Drucker

God continuously comes into the world in two places - at the altar and in the womb. ~ Peter Kreeft