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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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No higher duty, or more solemn responsibility, rests upon this Court than that of translating into living law and maintaining this constitutional…
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Every rose is an autograph from the hand of the Almighty God on this world about us. He has inscribed His thoughts…
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Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing
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Nature is a vast tablet, inscribed with signs, each of which has its own significancy, and becomes poetry in the mind when…
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Wir mussen wissen. Wir werden wissen. We must know. We will know. Inscribed on his tomb in Gilttingen.
— David Hilbert
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After death, life reappears in a different form and with different laws. It is inscribed in the laws of the permanence of…
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I would like to ask all those who have positions of responsibility in economic, political and social life, and all men and…
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'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment…
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I want to take my rightful share of life by force, I want to give lavishly, I want love to flow from…
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For a billion years the patient earth amassed documents and inscribed them with signs and pictures which lay unnoticed and unused. Today,…
— Hans Cloos
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This song of the waters is audible to every ear, but there is other music in these hills, by no means audible…
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