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1845–1879 England

William Kingdon Clifford (May 4, 1845 – March 3, 1879) was an English mathematician and philosopher.

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Also known as: W. K. Clifford

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The name philosopher, which meant originally 'lover of wisdom,' has come in some strange way to mean a man who thinks it is his business to explain everything in a certain number of large books. It will be found, I think, that in proportion to his colossal ignorance is the perfection and symmetry of the system which he sets up; because it is so much easier to put an empty room tidy than a full one.

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