William Ian Beardmore Beveridge Quotes
- 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…
- 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.
- No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter. Most people are ready to believe something based on…
- 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…
- 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…
- Cultivate an intellectual habit of subordinating one's opinions and wishes to objective evidence and a reverence for things as they really are.