Benjamin Peirce Quotes

Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.

Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth.

What is man? ... What a strange union of matter and mind! A machine for converting material into spiritual force.

There are many cases of these algebras which may obviously be combined into natural classes, but the consideration of this portion of the subject will be reserved to subsequent researches.