Charles Sanders
Charles Sanders
easy uncertain certain
It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.
ifs universe
The entire universe is perfused with signs, if it is not composed exclusively of signs.
teacher teaching remember
In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience.
thinking conscious
We do not really think, we are barely conscious, until something goes wrong.
dream needs stuff
...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.
mind firsts judgment
Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment.
knowledge knowing doe
If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it does in diligent inquiry into truth for truth's sake, without any sort of axe to grind, nor for the sake of the delight of contemplating it, but from an impulse to penetrate into the reason of things.
language
My language is the sum total of myself.