"The entire universe is perfused with signs, if……" — Charles Sanders Peirce
"The entire universe is perfused with signs, if it is not composed exclusively of signs."
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Charles Sanders Peirce
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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 Composed Quotes
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
— Aristotle
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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is…
— Walter Benjamin
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The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter,…
— Annie Besant
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Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
— Samuel Butler
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Speaking of Twitter, I don't even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy…
— Diablo Cody
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Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Life processes take place in an aqueous medium. All organisms are composed mostly of water, whether they dwell in the…
— Robert E. Lee
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If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold,…
— Taisen Deshimaru
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The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.
— Confucius
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Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for…
— Aristotle
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Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite…
— Nicolas Chamfort
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