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Men Quotes by Charles Sanders Peirce
- For example, there are numbers of chemists who occupy themselves exclusively with the study of dyestuffs. They discover facts that are useful to scientific chemistry;…
- True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men. To employ these…
- It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.
- [For] men to whom nothing seems great but reason ... nature ... is a cosmos, so admirable, that to penetrate to its ways seems to…
- 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,…
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