You don't have to be faster than the bear; you just have to be faster than the slowest guy running from the bear.

Lissenko

You are at once custodian of the narrative, myth maker and myth interpreter.

John Tusa

From Nature,from Adelard of Bath

Because our generation refuses to accept anything that seems to come from contemporary fellows, if I wish to publish a nex idea, I have to attribute it to someone else.

This is why so many of the works of natural philosophy from antiquity to the Renaissance have apocryphal attribution: a book apparently by Pliny or Aristotle was more likely to be read. The progressive thinkers of the early Middle Ages hid their new wine in old flasks, so that others would take them seriously.