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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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A man doesn't borrow pieces of his body. A building doesn't borrow hunks of its soul. Its maker gives it the soul…
— Ayn Rand
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As far as our noblest hardwood forests are concerned, the animals, especially squirrels and jays, are our greatest and almost only benefactors.…
— Henry David Thoreau
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No one ever wanted to hire me. Ever. I've never been recruited anywhere. I have beat my head against every wall, at…
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When you see something special, something inspired, you realise the debt we owe great curators and their unforgettable shows - literally unforgettable…
— Charles Saatchi
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Every wall is a door.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn,…
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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My father was famous for his photographic memory. He was in the OSS. They trained him to be captured on purpose and…
— Mark Helprin
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I have seen, the true face of the enemy; in my mirror. Dare you look, see, the same Demon, that plagues me?…
— Eric Nickel
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Every wall seems to be crashing down.. you feel helpless and afraid...Survival mode kicks in...and you live another day..
— Mnberry
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