"We may always depend on it that algebra,……" — William Kingdon Clifford
"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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30 Quotes by William Kingdon Clifford
William Kingdon Clifford has 30 quotes on this site.
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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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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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Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for…
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More Algebra Quotes
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Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies…
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In the algebra of psychology, X stands for a woman's heart.
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Our problem is that we assume prayer is something to master the way we master algebra or auto mechanics. But…
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There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its…
— Victor Hugo
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If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions…
— Tom Stoppard
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The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever…
— John Stuart Mill
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It is the facts that matter, not the proofs. Physics can progress without the proofs, but we can't go on…
— Richard P. Feynman
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Standard mathematics has recently been rendered obsolete by the discovery that for years we have been writing the numeral five…
— Woody Allen
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Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Royal Academy, or the…
— James Joseph Sylvester
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I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic…
— Nicolas Malebranche
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