“If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it does in diligent inquiry into truth for truth's sake, without any sort of axe to grind, nor for the sake of the delight of contemplating it, but from an impulse to penetrate into the reason of things.”
This book serves as a comprehensive collection of the authors' published and unpublished works, offering insights into their academic and intellectual contributions across various disciplines. more
Charles Sanders Peirce was an American philosopher, logician, and scientist, born on September 10, 1839, and died on April 19, 1914. Known as the founder of modern symbolic logic, Peirce's philosophical ideas have had a profound impact on fields such as logic, philosophy of science, and cognitive science. more
“In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.”
“It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.”