Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes

I am not a mathematician, but I was aware that for centuries, mathematics was considered the queen of the sciences because it claimed certainty. It was grounded on some fundamental certainties - axioms - that led to others.

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

Math is the only place where truth and beauty mean the same thing.

Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things.

There's math, and everything else is debatable!

There are no sects in geometry.

Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

if you do not appreciate the mathematics, you cannot see, among the great variety of facts, that logic permits you to go from one to the other

Formal logic is mathematics, and there are philosophers like Wittgenstein that are very mathematical, but what they're really doing is mathematics - it's not talking about things that have affected computer science; it's mathematical logic.

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.

Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic.

Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy which we call mathematics.

Right is not right; so is not so. If right were really right it would differ so clearly from not right that there would be no need for argument. If so were really so, it would differ so clearly from not so that there would be no need for argument.

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.

You’re not exempt from math if you’re a Republican, and you’re not exempt from math if you’re a Democrat. You’re not exempt from math if you’re a liberal, and you’re not exempt from math if you’re a conservative. You still have to do math.

While there is such a thing as correctness in ethics, in interpretation, in mathematics, the way to understand that is not by trying to model it on the ways in which we get things right in physics.

God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!

In logic, there are no morals.

Mathematics is the gate and key to science.

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.

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

Math is my favorite subject. It's the universal language. I like the fact that wherever you go in the whole world, two plus two will still be four.

I don't believe there's two sides to every story. It's black and white. There's right and wrong.