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> [It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-sanders-peirce/it-is-not-knowing-but-the-love-of-learning-that-characterizes-the/)

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## More by Charles Sanders Peirce

> [If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it does in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-sanders-peirce/if-we-are-to-define-science-it-does-not-consist-so-much-in-knowing/)

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> [It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-sanders-peirce/it-will-sometimes-strike-a-scientific-man-that-the-philosophers-have/)

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> [One will meet, for example, the virtual assumption that what is relative to thought cannot be real. But why not, exactly? Red is relative…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-sanders-peirce/one-will-meet-for-example-the-virtual-assumption-that-what-is/)

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> [Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-sanders-peirce/generality-is-indeed-an-indispensable-ingredient-of-reality-for-mere/)

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> [... and it is probably that there is some secret here which remains to be discovered.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-sanders-peirce/and-it-is-probably-that-there-is-some-secret-here-which-remains-to-be/)

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> [Our whole past experience is continually in our consciousness, though most of it sunk to a great depth of dimness. I think of consciousness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-sanders-peirce/our-whole-past-experience-is-continually-in-our-consciousness-though/)

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> [Theoretically, I grant you, there is no possibility of error in necessary reasoning. But to speak thus "theoretically," is to uselanguage in a Pickwickian…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-sanders-peirce/theoretically-i-grant-you-there-is-no-possibility-of-error-in/)

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> [Looking out of my window this lovely spring morning I see an azalea in full bloom. No, no! I do not see that; though…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-sanders-peirce/looking-out-of-my-window-this-lovely-spring-morning-i-see-an-azalea/)

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> [Fate then is that necessity by which a certain result will surely be brought to pass according to the natural course of events however…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-sanders-peirce/fate-then-is-that-necessity-by-which-a-certain-result-will-surely-be/)

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> [If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-sanders-peirce/if-man-were-immortal-he-could-be-perfectly-sure-of-seeing-the-day/)

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> [Some think to avoid the influence of metaphysical errors, by paying no attention to metaphysics; but experience shows that these men beyond all others…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-sanders-peirce/some-think-to-avoid-the-influence-of-metaphysical-errors-by-paying-no/)

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> [The percept is the reality. It is not in propositional form. But the most immediate judgment concerning it is abstract. It is therefore essentially…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-sanders-peirce/the-percept-is-the-reality-it-is-not-in-propositional-form-but-the/)

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> [There never was a sounder logical maxim of scientific procedure than Ockham's razor: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. That is to say; before…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-sanders-peirce/there-never-was-a-sounder-logical-maxim-of-scientific-procedure-than/)

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> [And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-sanders-peirce/and-what-then-is-belief-it-is-the-demi-cadence-which-closes-a-musical/)

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> [A hypothesis is something which looks as if it might be true and were true, and which is capable of verification or refutation by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-sanders-peirce/a-hypothesis-is-something-which-looks-as-if-it-might-be-true-and-were/)

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