“It is the care we bestow on apparently trifling, unatractive and very troublesome minutiae which determines the result.” LifeCareScienceAttentionInvestigationDetail Book:The Art of Scientific Investigation Source: The Art of Scientific Investigation
“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 instrument in research must always be the mind of man.” IfsMenMindImportantSometimesPlayScienceForgetWonderResearchAccountsInstruments Book:The Art of Scientific Investigation Source: The Art of Scientific Investigation
“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.” FirstsMayArtSaidFactsScienceResearchAccountsParadoxicalScientific Research Author:William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
“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 experiment but the experimenter knows the many little things that could have gone wrong in the experiment.” PeopleKnowsFeelsBelieveLittlesReasonFactsHandsScienceGoneReadyDiscoveryCriticalExperimentsLittle ThingsDevotedHypothesisLiable Author:William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
“Many discoveries must have been stillborn or smothered at birth. We know only those which survived.” KnowsHas BeensScienceBirthDiscoverySurvivedDiscovery In Science Author: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.” TryingMindFirstsFormScienceConsciousDiscoveryAdultsSomething NewRidiculeNew DiscoveriesDiscovery In Science Book:The Art of Scientific Investigation Source: The Art of Scientific Investigation
