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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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History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.
— Konrad Adenauer
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Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
— Thomas Carlyle
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You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences…
— Maya Angelou
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There is no such thing as a person. There are only restrictions and limitations. The sum total of these defines the person.…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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The sum total of each man's giving determines the standard of man's civilization.
— Walter Russell
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Life is like a game of chess...there are many moves possible, but each move determines your next move...where you wind up is…
— Mort Walker
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Everyone has faith in God though everyone does not know it. For everyone has faith in himself and that multiplied to the…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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According to the true Indian view, our consciousness of the world, merely as the sum total of things that exist, and as…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
— Thomas Carlyle
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And after your death, when most of you for the first time realize what life here is all about, you will begin…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Perfect love is to feeling what perfect white is to color. Many think that white is the absence of color. It is…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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