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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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An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of…
— Theodor Adorno
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For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power…
— John Cheever
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The universality of tattooing is a curious subject for speculation.
— James Cook
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It should not be strange that the values cherished by all the three major religions are the same, since they originate from…
— King Hussein I
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Without undervaluing any other human agency, it may be safely affirmed that the Common School, improved and energized, as it can easily…
— Horace Mann
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I read the story and reread the story, but I still could not find the universality that the little Irishman had spoken…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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The framework of the artist's ideas is clearly only that which he is forever seeking for universality, and must be far wider…
— Sean O Faolain
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The universality of salvation means that it is granted not only to those who explicitly believe in Christ and have entered the…
— Pope John Paul II
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It was never the people who complained of the universality of human rights, nor did the people consider human rights as a…
— Vaclav Havel
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Yet is it possible in terms of the motion of atoms to explain how men can invent an electric motor, or design…
— Arthur Compton
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[The aim of science is] to explain what so far has taken to be an explicans, such as a law of nature.…
— Karl Popper
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Individuality in universality is the plan of creation. Each cell has its part in bringing about consciousness. Man is individual and at…
— Swami Vivekananda
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