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.
-- William Kingdon Clifford
   
William Kingdon Clifford   Name:
William Kingdon Clifford
Type:
Mathematician
Nationality:
English
Birth:
May 4, 1845
Death:
March 3, 1879
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