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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 24 quotes by William Kingdon Clifford William Kingdon Clifford FRS (4 May 1845 – 3 March 1879) was an English mathematician and philosopher. 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. The operations of geometric algebra have the effect of mirroring, rotating, translating, and mapping the geometric objects that are being modelled to new positions. Clifford algebras in... Read full biography of William Kingdon Clifford → ← Ctrl 1 2 Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog... → 0 The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that the aggregate testimony of our neighbours is subject to the same... → 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances. 0 To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. 0 An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us to breathe amid the... → 0 Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes. 0 Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it. 0 Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we... → 0 To consider only one other such witness: the followers of the Buddha have at least as much right to appeal to individual and social experience in... → 0 ← Ctrl 1 2 Add a quote!


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24 quotes by William Kingdon Clifford