"Many a man has cherished for years as……" — Charles Sanders Peirce
"Many a man has cherished for years as his hobby some vague shadow of an idea, too meaningless to be positively false"
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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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More Cherished Quotes
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A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness…
— Margaret Atwood
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Women of this planet need some essential resources: wells, seeds and roads. That is primarily all we have ever needed.…
— Roseanne Barr
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Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may…
— Ambrose Bierce
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When you start falling for somebody and you can't stop thinking about when you're going to see them again, I…
— Orlando Bloom
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'Passione' is a selection of the music moments that have accompanied my youth; a collection of cherished memories, of moments,…
— Andrea Bocelli
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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best…
— Winston Churchill
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Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.
— Thomas Aquinas
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A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.
— George Eliot
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It feels amazing - really, really great! It was so nice to be out there and be cherished by all…
— Unknown Author
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But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done…
— Bertrand Russell
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Do we approach God from a beggar's perspective or as His cherished child? If we have any difficulty seeing Him…
— David Jeremiah
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