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William Kingdon Clifford Quotes
Page 2 of 2William Kingdon Clifford
May 4, 1845 - March 3, 1879
Nationality: English
Category: Mathematician
Subcategory: English Mathematician
|  The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs. | | 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 should help to create the world in which posterity will live. | | Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it. | | If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future. |
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