Benjamin Peirce Quote

You cannot think that any man, with a man's soul in his body, could devote his life to the drudgery of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, for the mere pleasure of the thing.


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


You cannot think that any man, with a man's soul in his body, could devote his life to the drudgery of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and...

You cannot think that any man, with a man's soul in his body, could devote his life to the drudgery of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and...

You cannot think that any man, with a man's soul in his body, could devote his life to the drudgery of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and...

You cannot think that any man, with a man's soul in his body, could devote his life to the drudgery of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and...