William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

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

— 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 ridicule, and escape includes merely putting out of mind.

— William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

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

— William Ian Beardmore Beveridge