Peter Brian 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

Well what? said Peter. He knew but had learned that if there was one advantage to the male sex it was that your obtuseness would never be underestimated; if you pretend you don't know what the problem is, half the time it just goes away. ~ Brian McGreevy

Indeed, as Peter Whittle recounts, during World War II efforts to solve the question so sapped the energies and minds of Allied analysts ... that the suggestion was made that the problem be dropped over Germany, as the ultimate instrument of intellectual sabotage. ~ Brian Christian

Brian, there's a message in my alphabet soup. It says oooooooo."
"Peter, those are cheerios. ~ Peter Griffin

All in all, Peter's love of being Peter was so great that like an overfilled bucket of paint it slopped over even in the smallest moments of his day. ~ Brian McGreevy

Peter was quiet. He put his fingertip to the floorboard and traced the words "thank you" in the old tongue and then blew the words away. ~ Brian McGreevy

You know your father, God rest his soul... Your father had a philosophy the he held to pretty strongly. And it's one that served him very, very well... He believed that if there were things in this world that you had to offer, things that you did well - better than anyone else... things that you could do that helped people feel better about themselves... well, he believed that it wasn't just a good idea to do those things... he believed it was your responsibility to do those things. Don't try to be something else. Don't try to be less. Great things are going to happen to you and your life Peter. Great things. And with that will come great responsibility. Do you understand? Great responsibility. ~ Brian Michael Bendis

'Two Voices,' from my album with Peter Schwalm, is an intact dream-poem. I awoke one night with an image of a piece of paper and all the words of the poem written on it, so I just blundered down to the kitchen table and 'copied it out.' ~ Brian Eno

I was relaxing in my parents' swimming pool with my brotherI asked him how the engineering business was going, and he reciprocated: 'How's the ministry world going?' 'Okay,' I said, 'except that a couple of weeks ago I realized that I don't know why Jesus had to die.' Then Peter, without skipping a beat, without even a moment's hesitation, said, 'Well, neither did Jesus.' ~ Brian D. McLaren

The British government is a murder machine, ~ Peter King

If you are good for nothing else, you can still serve as a bad example. ~ Peter L. Berger

Even in non-democratic countries, people have a legitimate interest in knowing about actions taken by the government. ~ Peter Singer

Failing to recognize the worth of beauty independent from utilitarian function is symptomatic of an abject poverty of the soul. It's like saying that if we turned St. Peter's Basilica into a parking garage, we would improve it by making it practical. There's a word for this, and it is vandalism. We must not vandalize the faith in the name of pragmatism! ~ Brian Zahnd

A man can be right and president, but he can't be both at the same time. ~ Finley Peter Dunne

My modus operandi after working for a decade as a self-funding freelancer, was to spend as little money as possible to get the job done, even if it was on someone else's nickel. ~ Peter Menzel

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all. ~ Peter F. Drucker

We get the leaders we create. ~ Peter Block

I've stopped watching TV news. They couldn't pay me enough money. ~ Peter Diamandis

In the long run, it's not just how much money you make that will determine your future prosperity. It's how much of that money you put to work by saving it and investing it. ~ Peter Lynch

In one department of his [Joseph Black's] lecture he exceeded any I have ever known, the neatness and unvarying success with which all the manipulations of his experiments were performed. His correct eye and steady hand contributed to the one; his admirable precautions, foreseeing and providing for every emergency, secured the other. I have seen him pour boiling water or boiling acid from a vessel that had no spout into a tube, holding it at such a distance as made the stream's diameter small, and so vertical that not a drop was spilt. While he poured he would mention this adaptation of the height to the diameter as a necessary condition of success. I have seen him mix two substances in a receiver into which a gas, as chlorine, had been introduced, the effect of the combustion being perhaps to produce a compound inflammable in its nascent state, and the mixture being effected by drawing some string or wire working through the receiver's sides in an air-tight socket. The long table on which the different processes had been carried on was as clean at the end of the lecture as it had been before the apparatus was planted upon it. Not a drop of liquid, not a grain of dust remained. ~ Henry Peter Brougham

Enter faith, and a whole new factor enters the equation. Words like "impossible" seem out of place. Despair and cynicism feel like insults to God. Hope grows, and love, and therefore motivation to care, to give, to act, to try, to dream, to risk. ~ Brian D. McLaren

You cannot save time, but you can spend time differently. ~ Brian Tracy

People who speak the same language can hate one another as easily as can people who speak unrelated languages. ~ Peter Farb

If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood. ~ Peter Handke

I enjoyed being involved in team sports and making close friendships. ~ Brian McBride

Any government, whether it is a democracy, a dictatorship, a communistic or free enterprise bureaucracy, will fall when its hierarchy reaches an intolerable state of maturity. ~ Laurence J. Peter

Any young man coming of age has a lot to go through. Peter Parker certainly has a lot of responsibility, and without doubt, so does Pippin - his role, his life, and how he is going to perform it. It's all about choices and how we make them. ~ Matthew James Thomas

100 years ago, movies were black-and-white, silent, and 16 frames a second. So 100 years from now, what are they going to be? ~ Peter Jackson

Careful observation will confirm that virtually all spontaneous parapsychological events occur through some form of sleight of mind. It is invariably something hovering just below the threshold of awareness that initiated an unusual event or gave one a curious half sensed feeling that something was about to happen just before it did. The magician seeks to exploid this effect deliberately, but in doing so he must avoid doing it deliberately as it were. Conscious lust of result destroys magical effect, so trickery must be employed to annul it and to activate the subconscious. ~ Peter J. Carroll

To me "King Kong" is a metaphor for America's fear of the black male and to me that's obvious. All right, so I mean that was one of the first things I said when I was talking to a friend of mine after he saw Peter Jackson's version of "King Kong." ~ Quentin Tarantino

I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic. ~ Peter Ustinov

I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head. ~ Brian Eno

If you have an enemy, you first have to listen - whether he really is an enemy or just speaks in a different language ~ Hans-Peter Durr

Setting goals is the first important step in achieving success in an activity. It's a reminder of what you are working towards. ~ Peter Vanderkaay

It's beautiful to transcend generations and to just be inside an artistic work, together, enjoying what only a great artistic work can provide. ~ Peter Davis

Faith and science can be friends, but they make for a disastrous marriage. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Babies are never suicidal. Hard lives, not hard boiled eggs do that. ~ Brian Spellman

In stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment. ~ Peter Lynch

The effective executive knows that it is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass. She therefore makes sure she puts into the leadership position, into the standard-setting, the performance-making position the person who has the strength to do the outstanding pacesetting job. This always requires focus on the one strength of a person and dismissal of weaknesses as irrelevant unless they hamper the full deployment of the available strength. ~ Peter Drucker

Management has authority only as long as it performs. ~ Peter Drucker

In a roomful of shouting people, the one who whispers becomes interesting. ~ Peter Schmidt

Hell, rationality itself - the exalted Human ability to reason - hadn't evolved in the pursuit of truth but simply to win arguments, to gain control: to bend others, by means logical or sophistic, to your will. ~ Peter Watts

When cars have the sensory systems around them, GPS intelligence, they're looking at the world not only in visual spectrum, but infrared, ultraviolet and everything else that's going on and they've got reaction times in microseconds. Not a tenth of a second. They're a hundred thousand times faster. ~ Peter Diamandis

Streaking. That's a very stupid young man thing to do. There is something ruder I can't mention. Celebs On Sunday, you're kinda clean, aren't you? Hmm. Maybe we should stick to streaking. ~ Peter Andre

Top management as a function and as a structure was first developed by Georg Siemens (1839-1901) in Germany between 1870 and 1880, when he designed and built the Deutsche Bank and made it, within a very few years, into continental Europe's leading and most dynamic financial institution. ~ Peter Drucker

What's a lightwave ship?"
"UFO, basically."
"Cool," Angela said. ~ Peter F. Hamilton