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		Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it. William Kingdon Clifford Vote on this Quote: Bad <---> Good
		Author Details: Type: Mathematician Quotes Category: English Mathematician Quotes Date of Birth: May 4, 1845 Date of Death: March 3, 1879 Nationality: English Amazon: William Kingdon Clifford on Amazon	Related Authors: Isaac Newton Charles Babbage Alfred North Whitehead Alan Turing Andrew Wiles Graham Nelson Isaac Barrow Ronald Fisher
		Select William Kingdon Clifford Quotations: To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances. William Kingdon Clifford 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. William Kingdon Clifford If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest. William Kingdon Clifford Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it. William Kingdon Clifford There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within. William Kingdon Clifford Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his race. William Kingdon Clifford In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts. William Kingdon Clifford
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