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.
There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey. - William Kingdon Clifford
There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey.
- William Kingdon Clifford
When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that. - William Kingdon Clifford
When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.
There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture … - William Kingdon Clifford
There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture …
The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the course of even… - William Kingdon Clifford
The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the course of even…
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 … - William Kingdon Clifford
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 …
No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe. - William Kingdon Clifford
No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.
All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land. - William Kingdon Clifford
All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.
Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog h… - William Kingdon Clifford
Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog h…
If a man, holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterwards, keeps down and pushes away any doubts which arise about it in… - William Kingdon Clifford
If a man, holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterwards, keeps down and pushes away any doubts which arise about it in…
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