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.
William Kingdon Clifford
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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.
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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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No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.
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