"Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without……" — Charles Sanders Peirce
"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 of geometry ... because they said it was so UTTERLY USELESS. There was the future of the human race almost trembling in the balance; for had not the geometry of conic sections already been worked out in large measure, and had their opinion that only sciences apparently useful ought to be pursued, the nineteenth century would have had none of those characters which distinguish it from the ancien régime."
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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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[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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Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a…
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Only the idea of death makes a warrior sufficiently detached so that he is capable of abandoning himself to anything.…
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True transformation occurs only when we can look at ourselves squarely and face our attachments and inner demons, free from…
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The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every…
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However, the small probability of a similar encounter [of the earth with a comet], can become very great in adding…
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It means abandoning being a poet, abandoning your careerism, abandoning even the idea of writing any poetry, really abandoning, giving…
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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If abandoning animal research means that there are some things we cannot learn, then so be it ... We have…
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A victor only breeds hatred, while a defeated man lives in misery, but a man at peace within lives happily,…
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The wise say that it is not an iron, wooden or fiber fetter which is a strong one, but the…
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