If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowin…

Charles Sanders Peirce
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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. ✨ Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). Collected Papers, p.19, Harvard University Press
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