Accounting Quote by Charles Sanders Peirce

“Law is par excellence the thing that wants a reason. Now the only possible way of accounting for the laws of nature, and for uniformity in general, is to suppose them results of evolution.” quote by Charles Sanders Peirce — Download Open image

“Law is par excellence the thing that wants a reason. Now the only possible way of accounting for the laws of nature, and for uniformity in general, is to suppose them results of evolution.”

Charles Sanders Peirce

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