“ Newton supposed that the case of the planet was similar to that of [a ball spun around on the end of… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
“ Euclid 's Elements has been for nearly twenty-two centuries the encouragement and guide of that scientific thought which is one thing… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis. — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
scientific thought does not mean thought about scientific subjects with long names. There are no scientific subjects. The subject of science is… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that the aggregate testimony of our neighbours is subject to… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
We feel much happier and more secure when we think we know precisely what to do, no matter what happens, then when we have… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land. — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
To consider only one other such witness: the followers of the Buddha have at least as much right to appeal to individual and social… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe. — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
“ Newton supposed that the case of the planet was similar to that of [a ball spun around on the end of an elastic… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
“ Euclid 's Elements has been for nearly twenty-two centuries the encouragement and guide of that scientific thought which is one thing with the… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra. — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey. — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances. — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
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