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Been Quotes by Charles Sanders Peirce
- 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…
- 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…
- All the greatest achievements of mind have been beyond the power of unaided individuals.
- 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…
- In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don't remember that any…
- Every work of science great enough to be well remembered for a few generations affords some exemplification of the defective state of the art of…
- It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what…
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