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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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When the logician has resolved each demonstration into a host of elementary operations, all of them correct, he will not yet be…
— Henri Poincare
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The book, as it stands, seems to me to be one of the most frightful muddles I have ever read, with scarcely…
— John Maynard Keynes
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Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.
— Pierre Bourdieu
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The one [the logician] studies the science of drawing conclusions, the other [the mathematician] the science which draws necessary conclusions.
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he…
— Thomas Hobbes
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The heart is the best logician.
— Wendell Phillips
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The seed haunted by the sun never fails to find its way between the stones in the ground. And the pure logician,…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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People who are unable to use their hands skillfully for all kinds of work, will not become good thinkers and will behave…
— Rudolf Steiner
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I am not a logician. I am an existentialist. I believe in this meaningless, beautiful chaos of existence, and I am ready…
— Rajneesh
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From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers…
— George Santayana
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Logic is in the eye of the logician.
— Gloria Steinem
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