All Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes
- Notwithstanding all that has been discovered since Newton's time, his saying that we are little children picking up pretty pebbles on the beach while the… All
- It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the exact sciences are… Begins
- For example, there are numbers of chemists who occupy themselves exclusively with the study of dyestuffs. They discover facts that are useful to scientific chemistry;… Care
- The woof and warp of all thought and all research is symbols, and the life of thought and science is the life inherent in symbols;… All
- True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men. To employ these… Aid
- If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it does in diligent… Any
- It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man. Characterizes
- Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes and Pascal-were abandoning the study… Abandoning
- [For] men to whom nothing seems great but reason ... nature ... is a cosmos, so admirable, that to penetrate to its ways seems to… Admirable
- Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize. Characteristic
- It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague. Certain
- It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last. Dismiss
- Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing. Actuality
- ...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic, especially in its… Airy
- Among the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be mentioned the fleshless and skeletal build of its propositions; the peculiar difficulty, complication, and stress… Among
- Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic. Bad
- If liberty of speech is to be untrammeled from the grosser forms of constraint, the uniformity of opinion will be secured by a moral terrorism… Approval
- My language is the sum total of myself. Funny
- Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is… Anything Else
- The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium… Action
- The entire universe is perfused with signs, if it is not composed exclusively of signs. Composed
- All the greatest achievements of mind have been beyond the power of unaided individuals. Achievement
- ... and it is probably that there is some secret here which remains to be discovered. Discovered
- A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a… Been
- The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give… Action