Peter Medawar (1915–1987) scientist
(with Jean Medawar) Aristotle to Zoos: A Philosophical Dictionary of Biology, 1983, p. 275.
1980s
“The old saw is that the Quakers went to the New World to do good and ended up doing well. Today, well-meaning reformers go to Washington to do good and end up doing harm.”
Source: An Economist's Protest: Columns in Political Economy (1966), p. 155
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