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Charles Sanders Peirce
(10 Sep 1839 - 19 Apr 1914)
American mathematician, logician and philosopher who is regarded as the greatest logician of his time. He founded pragmatism, which he first outlined in paper contributed to Popular Science Monthly (1878).
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Science Quotes by Charles Sanders Peirce (2)
Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.
— Charles Sanders Peirce
In Eberhard Zeidler, Applied Functional Analysis: main principles and their applications (1995), 282.
There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.
— Charles Sanders Peirce
Pragmatism as a Principle and Method of Right Thinking (1997), 266.
