"Upon this first, and in one sense this……" — Charles Sanders Peirce
"Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so desiring not be satisfied with what you already incline to think, there follows one corollary which itself deserves to be inscribed upon every wall of the city of philosophy: Do not block the way of inquiry."
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Charles Sanders Peirce
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45 Quotes by Charles Sanders Peirce
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It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.
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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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