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Useful 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…
- 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…
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- Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. — Francis Bacon
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