"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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"But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches."

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"Common sense often makes good law."

William O. Douglas, American Judge

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"Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants."

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"Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it."

Belief

"An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us to breathe amid the various and complex circumstances of our life."

Life

"If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest."

Money

"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."

Belief

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

Circumstance

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

Belief

"In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts."

Belief

"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."

Character

"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."

Action

"To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."

Wrong