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    William Kingdon Clifford

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    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. ↗


    — William Kingdon Clifford

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    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

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    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. ↗


    — William Kingdon Clifford

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    An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us to breathe amid the various and complex circumstances of our life. ↗


    — William Kingdon Clifford

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    If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future. ↗


    — William Kingdon Clifford

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    It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. ↗


    — William Kingdon Clifford

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    No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe. ↗


    — William Kingdon Clifford

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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

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    Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes. ↗


    — William Kingdon Clifford

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    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. ↗


    — William Kingdon Clifford

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    Did you know about William Kingdon Clifford?

    He was the first to suggest that gravitation might be a manifestation of an underlying geometry. He was much interested too in universal algebra and elliptic functions his papers "Preliminary Sketch of Biquaternions" (1873) and "On the Canonical Form and Dissection of a Riemann's Surface" (1877) ranking as classics. This paper was famously attacked by pragmatist philosopher William James in his "Will to Believe" lecture.

    In his philosophical writings he coined the expression "mind-stuff". Building on the work of Hermann Grassmann he introduced what is now termed geometric algebra a special case of the Clifford algebra named in his honour with interesting applications in contemporary mathematical physics and geometry.

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