Benjamin Peirce Quote

The arithmetical formula, considered as an end, is the embodiment of fact, and isolated fact is as worthless as the idle gossip of the parlor or the club; whereas facts combined into formulae and formulae organized into theory penetrate the whole domain of physical science, and ascend to the very throne of ideality.


Ideality in the Physical Sciences, Lecture I (pp. 10-11), Little, Brown & Co. 1881


The arithmetical formula, considered as an end, is the embodiment of fact, and isolated fact is as worthless as the idle gossip of the parlor or the...

The arithmetical formula, considered as an end, is the embodiment of fact, and isolated fact is as worthless as the idle gossip of the parlor or the...

The arithmetical formula, considered as an end, is the embodiment of fact, and isolated fact is as worthless as the idle gossip of the parlor or the...

The arithmetical formula, considered as an end, is the embodiment of fact, and isolated fact is as worthless as the idle gossip of the parlor or the...