"It is... easy to be certain. One has……" — Charles Sanders Peirce

"It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague."

— 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…
It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are…
For example, there are numbers of chemists who occupy themselves exclusively with the study of dyestuffs. They discover facts that…
The woof and warp of all thought and all research is symbols, and the life of thought and science is…
True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of…
If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge,"…
It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.
Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes…
[For] men to whom nothing seems great but reason ... nature ... is a cosmos, so admirable, that to penetrate…
Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.
It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out…
Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a…

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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole… — Aristotle
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently;… — Aristotle
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition… — Aristotle
Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your… — Arthur Ashe
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You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer. — Margaret Atwood
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To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. — Jane Austen

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