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Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet
(3 Sep 1899 - 31 Aug 1985)
Australian physician and virologist.
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Science Quotes by Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet (3 quotes)
E.W. Goodpasture showed that the virus of fowl pox could be grown in the tissues of the developing chick embryo. Nearly all the later practical advances in the control of virus diseases in man and animals sprang from this single discovery.
— Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet
In 'Filterable Viruses', Encyclopaedia Britannica (1954), Vol. 9, 237. As quoted and cited by Esmond R. Long, 'Ernest William Goodpasture', National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs (1965), 122.
I like to think that when Medawar and his colleagues showed that immunological tolerance could be produced experimentally the new immunology was born. This is a science which to me has far greater potentialities both for practical use in medicine and for the better understanding of living process than the classical immunochemistry which it is incorporating and superseding.
— Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet
'Immunological Recognition of Self', Nobel Lecture, 12 December 1960. In Nobel Lectures Physiology or Medicine 1942-1962 (1964), 689.
There is virtually nothing that has come from molecular biology that can be of any value to human living in the conventional sense of what is good, and quite tremendous possibilities of evil, again in the conventional sense.
— Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet
In Changing Patterns (1968).
See also:
- 3 Sep - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Burnet's birth.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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