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Charles Sanders Peirce has 45 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Notwithstanding all that has been discovered since Newton's time, his saying that we are little children picking up pretty pebbles on the…
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It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the…
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For example, there are numbers of chemists who occupy themselves exclusively with the study of dyestuffs. They discover facts that are useful…
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The woof and warp of all thought and all research is symbols, and the life of thought and science is the life…
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True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men.…
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If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it…
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It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.
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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…
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[For] men to whom nothing seems great but reason ... nature ... is a cosmos, so admirable, that to penetrate to its…
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Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.
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It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.
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It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.
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If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let…
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. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like…
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If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it…
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Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a motor-car or…
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Sleep! I feel the need of it, as never I thought any dwarf could , riding is tiring work. Yet my axe…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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And where the offense is, let the great axe fall.
— William Shakespeare
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Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.
— John Milton
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When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty…
— George Orwell
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Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears…
— Victor Hugo
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You may loan your last dollar to a friend; but never loan him your axe, unless you are certain that he knows…
— Horace Kephart
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Last week my tie caught on fire, some guy tried to put it out with an axe.
— Rodney Dangerfield
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Every moment of mindfulness means the gradual destruction of latent defilements. It is somewhat like cutting away a piece of wood with…
— Unknown Author
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