"All our liberties are due to men who,……" — William Kingdon Clifford
"All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land."
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30 Quotes by 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…
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The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that…
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If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he…
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When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or…
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Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which…
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We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is…
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There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready…
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The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity…
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An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us…
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Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the…
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He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it,…
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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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