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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.

~William Kingdon Clifford

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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 has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it.

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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 - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.

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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Mathematician

Born: May 4th, 1845

Died: March 3rd, 1879

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