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The Art of the Soluble
- Form
- Form Essay Collection
- Year
- Year 1967
- Pages
- Pages 160
If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Medawar's title comes from that sentence, and the book is its defence: a scientist's business is not to grapple heroically with the unanswerable but to find the problem that will yield, which is why so much brilliance gets squandered and so much patient, ordinary work quietly remakes the world.
If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble.
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