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Science Quotes by Charles Sanders Peirce
- It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the exact sciences are…
- The woof and warp of all thought and all research is symbols, and the life of thought and science is the life inherent in symbols;…
- 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…
- If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it does in diligent…
- 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 abandoning the study…
- ...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic, especially in its…
- The one [the logician] studies the science of drawing conclusions, the other [the mathematician] the science which draws necessary conclusions.
- 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…
- Every work of science great enough to be well remembered for a few generations affords some exemplification of the defective state of the art of…
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