"...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except……" — Charles Sanders Peirce
"...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic, especially in its early stages, is in danger of evaporating into airy nothingness, degenerating, as the Germans say, into an arachnoid film, spun from the stuff that dreams are made of. There is no such danger for pure mathematics; for that is precisely what mathematics ought to be."
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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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Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.
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Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I…
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My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like…
— Alexander Smith
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No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or…
— Samuel Johnson
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We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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When I feel the joy of receiving a gift my heart nudges me to join creation's ballet, the airy dance…
— Lewis B. Smedes
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It is necessary to introduce light vibrations, represented by reds and yellows, and a sufficient amount of blues, to obtain…
— Paul Cezanne
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If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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To become informed and hold government accountable, the general public needs to obtain news that is comprehensive yet interesting and…
— Eric Alterman
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If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass.
— Tori Amos
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Aristotle's opinion... that comets were nothing else than sublunary vapors or airy meteors... prevailed so far amongst the Greeks, that…
— Edmond Halley
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There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging…
— Gregory Benford
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