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William Kingdon Clifford has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should…
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If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not…
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When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits…
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Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can…
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We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.
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There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his…
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The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future.
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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
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Those who sniff decay in every shift of sense or alteration of usage do the language no service. Too often for such…
— Bill Bryson
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As to Don Juan, confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is…
— Lord Byron
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Good English, well spoken and well written will open more doors than a college degree... Bad English will slam doors you don't…
— William Raspberry
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Should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a schoolbook? Its morals are pure, its examples are captivating and…
— Fisher Ames
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On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local…
— Phil Collins
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I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words.
— Mark Twain
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When Jerry Lewis and I were big, we used to go to parties, and everybody thought I was big-headed and stuck up,…
— Dean Martin
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A person who speaks good English in New York sounds like a foreigner.
— Jackie Mason
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Until House came along I don't think the English made very good dance records, you know, there were very few really good…
— Fatboy Slim
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I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold…
— Golda Meir
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As to 'Don Juan,' confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is…
— Lord Byron
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