William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
Overview
 
Dr. William Ian Beardmore (WIB) Beveridge was an Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n animal pathologist and director of the Institute of Animal Pathology, University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...

. He was born in 1908 in Australia and died in 2006.
Quotations

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.

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

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