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Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes about Math

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The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which hs to be acquired with difficulty.

The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which hs to be acquired with difficulty.

Charles Sanders Peirce
Art, Math, Doubt

Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics.

Charles Sanders Peirce
Math, Needs, Ethics
Charles Sanders Peirce (1933). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce: Exact logic (Published papers).. The Simplest mathematics”, Harvard University Press

...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic, especially in its early stages, is in danger of evaporating into airy nothingness, degenerating, as the Germans say, into an arachnoid film, spun from the stuff that dreams are made of. There is no such danger for pure mathematics; for that is precisely what mathematics ought to be.

Charles Sanders Peirce
Dream, Math, Science
Charles Sanders Peirce (1931). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”

Among the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be mentioned the fleshless and skeletal build of its propositions; the peculiar difficulty, complication, and stress of its reasonings; the perfect exactitude of its results; their broad universality; their practical infallibility.

Charles Sanders Peirce
Stress, Math, Perfect
Charles Sanders Peirce (1931). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”

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