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Man Quotes by Charles Sanders Peirce
- It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.
- It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.
- If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust.
- It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact, and…
- If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and,…
- 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…
- Many a man has cherished for years as his hobby some vague shadow of an idea, too meaningless to be positively false
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