Today is the birthday of Charles Sanders Peirce (September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914), logician, mathematician, philosopher, and scientist. He is oft referred to as a polymath and with his pragmatic maxim, a founding father of Pragmatism."It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact, and devoting all the energies of his life to the cult of truth, not as he understands it, but as he does not yet understand it, that ought properly to be called a philosopher." - Charles S. Pierce
"It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system." - Charles S. Pierce
"The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which has to be acquired with difficulty." - Charles S. Pierce
"The idea does not belong to the soul; it is the soul that belongs to the idea." - Charles S. Pierce
"The entire universe is perfused with signs, if it is not composed exclusively of signs." - Charles S. Pierce
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