If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.
Charles Sanders PeirceThere is a kink in my damned brain that prevents me from thinking as other people think.
Charles Sanders PeirceThere is not a single truth of science upon which we ought to bet more than about a million of millions to one.
Charles Sanders PeirceIt is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.
Charles Sanders PeirceWe shall do better to abandon the whole attempt to learn the truthunless we can trust to the human mind's having such a powerof guessing right that before very many hypotheses shall have been tried, intelligent guessing may be expected to lead us to one which will support all tests, leaving the vast majority of possible hypotheses unexamined.
Charles Sanders Peirce