No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter. Most people are ready to believe som…

- William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

Hypothesis is a toll which can cause trouble if not used properly. We must be ready to abandon our hypothesis as soon as it is shown to be inconsiste…

- William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

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

- William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

Paradoxical as it may at first appear, the fact is that, as W. H. George has said, scientific research is an art, not a science.

- William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

When adults first become conscious of something new, they usually either attack or try to escape from it ... Attack includes such mild forms as ridic…

- William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

Elaborate apparatus plays an important part in the science of to-day, but I sometimes wonder if we are not inclined to forget that the most important…

- William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

Cultivate an intellectual habit of subordinating one's opinions and wishes to objective evidence and a reverence for things as they really are.

- William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

The Imagination merely enables us to wander into the darkness of the unknown where, by the dim light of the knowledge we carry, we may glimpse someth…

- William Ian Beardmore Beveridge