Sunday 28 February 2010

A thought for a Sunday


"Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in".



Sir Peter Brian Medawar (1915 – 1987)

5 comments:

dave hambidge said...

I heard him lecture once, didn't understand a fecking word! But this quote is so apposite...

Andy Holroyd said...

You lucky bugger. It's through Medawar that people now understand things like the major histocompatibility complex.

dave hambidge said...

Not in psychiatry we didn't!

Duncanr said...

"the major histocompatibility complex"

Yea, right - I always had problems with that :-))

Andy Holroyd said...

It's what tells self from non-self. Think 'immune system' and 'transplant rejection'.