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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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Elvis was, at least the times I was around him, Elvis was a practical joker. He was always, had some little mischievous…
— Jackie DeShannon
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I always thought my genitals were the result of some crude practical joke.
— Steven Morrissey
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If you make people laugh or cry about little black marks on sheets of white paper, what is that but a practical…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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I'm a traveling practical joker. That's my line of work.
— Colin Mochrie
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I'm terrible at practical jokes. I do them too well, so they're not funny. I end up saying, “Oh, no, I'm joking,…
— Anna Torv
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The human race has been set up. Someone, somewhere, is playing a practical joke on us. Apparently, women need to feel loved…
— Billy Connolly
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Nobody was perfect. Not even close. And everybody had wrinkles from smiling and squinting and craining their necks. Everybody has marks on…
— Katherine Center
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A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke.
— Joshua Lederberg
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The only really good vegetable is Tabasco sauce. Put Tabasco sauce in everything. Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.
— Larry David
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My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.
— Lincoln Steffens
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I never really was much of a practical jokester or anything.
— Kristanna Loken
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