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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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Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.
— William J. Clinton
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A social fact is every way of acting, fixed or not, capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint; or again,…
— Emile Durkheim
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We must destroy all which in the present school answers to the organization of constraint, the artificial surroundings by which children are…
— Francesc Ferrer i Guardia
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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the…
— Seneca the Younger
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A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.
— Jean Giraudoux
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An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must…
— Henri Matisse
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Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.
— Michelangelo
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An artist must not feel under any constraint.
— Henri Matisse
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Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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The most important feature of the Chess position is the activity of the pieces. This is absolutely fundamental in all phases of…
— Michael Stean
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Creativity comes from constraint.
— Biz Stone
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