Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes

It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.

Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.

Scientists who think science consists of unprejudiced data-gathering without speculation are merely cows grazing on the pasture of knowledge.

Philosophy's position with regard to science, which at one time could be designated with the name "theory of knowledge," has been undermined by the movement of philosophical thought itself. Philosophy was dislodged from this position by philosophy.

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of their field. Scientists have not generally needed or wanted to be philosophers.

It should now be clear why the method of Philosophy is so different from that of the natural sciences. Experiments are not made, because they would be utterly useless.

Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.

There's no such thing as 'facts of life'. Only standing theories that haven't been disproved as of yet.

In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.

Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

It is, from another angle, an attack on requiring proof in philosophy. And it's also the case, I guess, that my temperament is to like interesting, new, bold ideas, and to try and generate them.

We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.

If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent your children from learning about it and letting them draw their own conclusions.