Mathematics Quotes by Charles Sanders Peirce

Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

The one [the logician] studies the science of drawing conclusions, the other [the mathematician] the science which draws necessary conclusions.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which hs to be acquired with difficulty.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

This branch of mathematics [Probability] is the only one, I believe, in which good writers frequently get results which are entirely erroneous.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

... and it is probably that there is some secret here which remains to be discovered.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Theoretically, I grant you, there is no possibility of error in necessary reasoning. But to speak thus "theoretically," is to uselanguage in…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

It has never been in my power to study anything, mathematics, ethics, metaphysics, gravitation, thermodynamics, optics, chemistry, comparative anatomy, astronomy, psychology, phonetics,…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Among the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be mentioned the fleshless and skeletal build of its propositions; the peculiar difficulty,…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic,…

— Charles Sanders Peirce