"It is impossible not to envy the man……" — Charles Sanders Peirce
"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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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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Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a…
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We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature;…
— Diane Ackerman
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Some men are deeply likable but have attitudes I don't like. Does that mean I should completely dismiss them? It's…
— Jo Brand
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Knowledge is power. Most of us agree that something has to be done to strengthen Social Security, and I believe…
— Conrad Burns
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Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody…
— Stokely Carmichael
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Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated…
— Dorothy Allison
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In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is…
— Aberjhani
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People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss this as some sort…
— Ze Frank
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If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.
— Augustus
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A wider of more altruistic attitude is very relevant in today's world. If we look at the situation from various…
— Dalai Lama
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If Christ did not want to dismiss the Jews without food in the desert for fear that they would collapse…
— St. Jerome
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Don't simply dismiss a coincidence and let it drift away. Life is totally interconnected. These unusual 'things' are simply connections…
— Deepak Chopra
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