"Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality;……" — Charles Sanders Peirce
"Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing."
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Charles Sanders Peirce
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45 Quotes by Charles Sanders Peirce
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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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