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Quotes from The Art of Scientific Investigation — William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

d. 2006 Australia

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Many discoveries must have been stillborn or smothered at birth. We know only those which survived.

The Art of Scientific Investigation (1950)

When adults first become conscious of something new, they usually either attack or try to escape from it... Attack includes such mild forms as ridicule, and escape includes merely putting out of mind.

The Art of Scientific Investigation (1950)

...no one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter.

The Art of Scientific Investigation (1950)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Ian Beardmore Beveridge (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.