Charles Sanders Peirce on Science
1839–1914 United States
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Philosophy, as I understand the word, is a positive theoretical science, and a science in an early stage of development.
Pragmatism and Pragmaticism (1903)
True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men.
It has never been in my power to study anything, — mathematics, ethics, metaphysics, gravitation, thermodynamics, optics, chemistry, comparative anatomy, astronomy, psychology, phonetics, economics, the history of science, whist, men and women, wine, metrology, except as a study of semeiotic.