OUCH. Medawar’s Demolition of Teilhard de Chardin’s Fifties guide, The Phenomenon of Man
P B Medawar in 1960 In his assessment revealed in 1961, now deservedly extra well-known than the guide* itself, Peter Medawar began as he meant to go on. After quoting 5 aphorisms he extracted, Medawar wrote: This little bouquet of aphorism, every one thought sufficiently essential by its writer to deserve a paragraph to itself, … Read more