Macfarlane Burnet Quotes

#1. Sir Peter Medawar, an eminent British biologist who received a Nobel Prize the same year as Macfarlane Burnet, defined a virus as a piece of bad news wrapped up in a protein.

David Quammen

#2. Today and always, there will be an obligation to pass on to the new generation the tradition of liberal scholarship - scientific or in the humanities - and to bring the understanding of things and human actions to everyone.

Frank Macfarlane Burnet

#3. Regrets ... Regrets are bootless. A vain trick of the mind. An impotent raging against what cannot be changed anyway. A distraction from the moment.

Andrew Ashling

#4. When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.

Nate Silver

#5. I wonder if you have ever given someone a compliment that wasn't a backhanded insult.

I prefer not to, it gives people an unsettling impression of self-importance.

Rachel E. Carter

#6. The production of antibody is not the only, nor I believe the most important, manifestation of immunity, but for reasons both historical and of experimental convenience, antibody is likely to remain the touchstone of immunological theory.

Frank Macfarlane Burnet

#7. No Keynesian has ever proposed a measure designed to make the individual more productive; for that would require institutional means for enabling him to acquire ownership of the nonhuman factor of production: capital.

Louis O. Kelso

#8. I worked at the Northlight Theater in Skokie, and the Mercury Theater on South Port. I actually did a show there for three years, called 'Over the Tavern.'

Nico Tortorella

#9. To advance science is highly honourable, and I believe the institution of the Nobel Prizes has done much to raise the prestige of scientific discovery.

Frank Macfarlane Burnet

#10. You have to train your mind like you train your body.

Bruce Jenner

#11. Serum albumin is a well-defined protein, but no laboratory has yet attempted to ascertain its full chemical structure.

Frank Macfarlane Burnet

#12. The idea of man as the dominant mammal of the earth whose whole behaviour tends to be dominated by his own desire for dominance gripped me. It seemed to explain almost everything, and I applied it to everything.

Frank Macfarlane Burnet

#13. I can see no hope at present of such a vaccine being produced ... I have adopted a frankly defeatist attitude towards the problem of poliomyelitis and I hope that future developments will prove me wrong ... No means of controlling poliomyelitis is at present visible.

Frank Macfarlane Burnet

#14. I deal with the hatred by loving my supporters more.

George Zimmerman

#15. I can see no practical application of molecular biology to human affairs ... DNA is a tangled mass of linear molecules in which the informational content is quite inaccessible.

Frank Macfarlane Burnet

#16. We are each of us a bird in a body. In the space between bodies lies a solitude formed by the vibration of differing thoughts.

Meia Geddes

#17. Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.

Paul McCartney

#18. One day we will be free. And we become free by living despite what they do to us. We live by working, and we work for God.

Kristy Cambron