Peter Doherty Quotations

One of our missions is education. I've been at a lot of their performances, which are really heart warming, to see these kids use their talents.

Joe kept us in the game in the second period, then he came out in the third and gave up a couple of real beauties.

Will you remember the famous men who have to fall to rise again/ So take a deep breath, pick yourself up, start all over again.

You have to be willing to get up when you're knocked down. ... We scientists are rather accustomed to falling flat on our faces! If you don't fail, you aren't trying anything new.

At the time of writing, there is considerable trepidation that we could be in for something even worse (than the influenza pandemic of 1918-19),

Everything we know in biology agrees with Darwin's theory of evolution in a broad sense, and the theory is tested probably 1000 times a day in various laboratories without anyone going out to test it. They (the American-funded movement to foist intelligent design teaching onto science teachers in Australia) really want a science teacher who may well be atheistic anyway, introducing the concept of God into science. It's a ridiculous idea and has no place in science teaching.

Try to solve major problems and make really big discoveries

Influenza viruses spread very rapidly ... this is a disaster waiting to happen.

Their first two goals were terrible. Our defense played awful.