We feel much happier and more secure when we think we know precisely what to do, no matter what happens, then when we have lost our way and do not know where to turn.
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
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.
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 …
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.
The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose t… - William Kingdon Clifford
The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose t…
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…
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…
The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis. - William Kingdon Clifford
The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis.
To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances. - William Kingdon Clifford
To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances.
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