Lib Quotes
  • Authors
  • Topics
  • Lists
  • Pictures
  • Resources
  • More about Charles Sanders Peirce

Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes

152 Sourced Quotes

    • Source
    • Report...
A great naturalist, as well as I can make out, is a man whose capacious skull allows of his being on the alert to a hundred different things at once, this same alertness being connected with a power of seeing the relations between different complicated sets of phenomena when they are presented in their entirety.

Charles Sanders Peirce
    • Source
    • Report...
[Science] advances by leaps; and the impulse for each leap is either some new observational resource, or some novel way of reasoning about the observations. Such novel way of reasoning might, perhaps, be considered as a new observation means, since it draws attention to reactions between facts which would previously have been passed by unperceived.

Charles Sanders Peirce
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6

Quote of the day

What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Charles Sanders Peirce

Charles Sanders Peirce
Creative Commons

Born: September 10, 1839
Died: April 19, 1914 (aged 74)
Bio: Charles Sanders Peirce was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism". He was educated as a chemist and employed as a scientist for 30 years.
Known for:
  1. The essential Peirce
  2. Peirce on signs
  3. Chance, love, and logic
  4. Philosophical Writings of Peirce
Most used words:
  • idea
  • time
  • mind
  • general
  • feeling
  • law
  • science
  • thought
  • second
  • consciousness
  • logic
  • future
  • moment
  • infinitesimal
  • objects

WikipediaCharles Sanders Peirce on Wikipedia
WikisourceCharles Sanders Peirce works on Wikisource

Suggest an edit or a new quoteSuggest an edit or a new quote

Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes
Charles Sanders Peirce Short Quotes
Quotes about Charles Sanders Peirce

American Mathematician Quotes
Mathematician Quotes
19th-century Mathematician Quotes

Related Authors

Ferdinand de Saussure
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss Linguist

William James
William James
American Psychologist

John Dewey
John Dewey
American Psychologist

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Austrian Philosopher

Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco
Italian Philosopher


Family
Benjamin Peirce
Benjamin Peirce
Father

Featured Authors

Elizabeth I of EnglandAndré GideJean-Paul SartreDonald TrumpJane AustenMartin Luther King, Jr.Martin ScorseseLewis CarrollSteve JobsUmberto EcoCharles DarwinVirgil

Lists

Predictions that didn't happen

Predictions that didn't happen

If it's on the Internet it must be true

If it's on the Internet it must be true

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Picture Quotes

If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

Confucius

I have a heart with room for every joy.

Philip James Bailey

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Popular Topics

  • life
  • love
  • nature
  • time
  • god
  • power
  • human
  • mind
  • work
  • art
  • heart
  • thought
  • men
  • day
Lib Quotes

100% Sourced Quotes.

Our motto is: Don't quote it if you can't source it.

Contact us

Social Media

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • X (Twitter)
  • Pinterest

Recent

Predictions that didn't happen

If it's on the Internet it must be true

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Subscribe to our Newsletter:
Quote of the Day
JS and WordPress
Subscribe
to RSS Feeds
© 2017-2025 LibQuotes
Terms of Use / Privacy Policy / About Us

Lib Quotes