Peter Medawar Art Quotations

If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.

Science is the art of the solvable.

Scientists are people of very dissimilar temperaments doing different things in very different ways. Among scientists are collectors, classifiers and compulsive tidiers-up; many are detectives by temperament and many are explorers; some are artists and others artisans. There are poet-scientists and philosopher-scientists and even a few mystics.

The art of research [is] the art of making difficult problems soluble by devising means of getting at them.