"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)
Sunday, 28 February 2010
A thought for a Sunday
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I heard him lecture once, didn't understand a fecking word! But this quote is so apposite...
You lucky bugger. It's through Medawar that people now understand things like the major histocompatibility complex.
Not in psychiatry we didn't!
"the major histocompatibility complex"
Yea, right - I always had problems with that :-))
It's what tells self from non-self. Think 'immune system' and 'transplant rejection'.
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