"We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra."

William Kingdon Clifford, English Mathematician

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"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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William Kingdon Clifford, English Mathematician

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"There is nothing more uncommon than common sense."

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"The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that the aggregate testimony of our neighbours is subject to the same conditions as the testimony of any one of them."

Obvious

"Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his race."

Help

"He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart."

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"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."

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"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 the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery."

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"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."

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"To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances."

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"Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes."

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"A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions."

Experience

"If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future."

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