"... and it is probably that there is……" — Charles Sanders Peirce
"... and it is probably that there is some secret here which remains to be discovered."
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Charles Sanders Peirce
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45 Quotes by Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce has 45 quotes on this site.
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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…
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It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are…
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For example, there are numbers of chemists who occupy themselves exclusively with the study of dyestuffs. They discover facts that…
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The woof and warp of all thought and all research is symbols, and the life of thought and science is…
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True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of…
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If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge,"…
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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…
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[For] men to whom nothing seems great but reason ... nature ... is a cosmos, so admirable, that to penetrate…
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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…
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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
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To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary…
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Even in the darkest regions, people have discovered their right of freedom.
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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as…
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Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone…
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Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
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Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If…
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