Peter B. Medawar

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    Among them was a Bishop, who
    Had lately been appointed to
    The balmy isle of Rum-ti-Foo,
    And Peter was his name.
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    If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.
    —Peter B. Medawar (1915–1987)