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"...no one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter."
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William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
William Ian Beardmore (WIB) Beveridge (1908–2006) was an Australian animal pathologist and director of the Institute of Animal Pathology, University of Cambridge. He was born on 23 April 1908 in Junee, New South Wales, Australia, and died on 14 August 2006. He was the author of The Art of Scientific Investigation in 1957, and Influenza, the Last Great Plague, in 1977.
"...no one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter."
"Many discoveries must have been stillborn or smothered at birth. We know only those which survived."
"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."