Quoted in A. D'Abro, The Evolution of Scientific Thought from Newton to Einstein, Part 4, ch. 37 (1927) - Clifford, William Kingdon | WIST Quotations
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…
