The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘Minute Logic: Chapter II. Prelogical Notions. Section I. Classification of the Sciences’

Term: 
Science
Quote: 

Science is research; and research is science, from the first moment when the researcher casts aside all desire to prove his present opinions right, and burns with ardent desire to find out wherein they are wrong. Science thus consists in a disposition of living men; and therefore, the true divisions of science will be those which divide living men.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1902). Minute Logic: Chapter II. Prelogical Notions. Section I. Classification of the Sciences. MS [R] 426
Date: 
1902
References: 
MS [R] 426:12
Citation: 
‘Science’ (pub. 21.07.15-16:25). Quote in M. Bergman & S. Paavola (Eds.), The Commens Dictionary: Peirce's Terms in His Own Words. New Edition. Retrieved from http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-chapter-ii-prelogical-notions-section-i-classification-sciences.
Posted: 
Jul 21, 2015, 16:25 by Mats Bergman