William Kingdon Clifford Quotes
There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey.
Clifford, William Kingdon. "On the Scientific Basis of Morals." Lectures and Essays, edited by Leslie Stephen and Frederick Pollock, vol. 2, Macmillan and Co., 1879, pp. 106-123.
William Kingdon Clifford FRS was an English mathematician and philosopher. Building on the work of Hermann Grassmann, he introduced what is now termed geometric algebra, a special case of the Clifford algebra named in his honour. The operations of geometric algebra have the effect of mirroring, rotating, translating, and mapping the geometric objects that are being modelled to new positions. Clifford algebras in general and geometric algebra in particular have been of ever increasing importance to mathematical physics, geometry, and computing. Clifford was the first to suggest that gravitation might be a manifestation of an underlying geometry. In his philosophical writings he coined the expression mind-stuff.
