William Kingdon Clifford Quotes & Sayings
24 most famous William Kingdon Clifford quotes and sayings (mathematician). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions.”
“It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.”
“The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery.”
“The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs.”
“When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.”
“He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart.”
“If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future.”
“We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.”
“We feel much happier and more secure when we think we know precisely what to do, no matter what happens, then when we have lost our way and do not know where to turn.”
“No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.”
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