We may believe what goes beyond our experience, only when it is inferred from that experience by the assumption that what we do not know is like what we know. (William Kingdon Clifford)

We may believe what goes beyond our experience, only when it is inferred from that experience by the assumption that what we do not know is like what we know.

William Kingdon Clifford

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