It Is... Easy To Be Certain. One

Mathematics Is Purely Hypothetical: It Produces Nothing But Conditional Propositions.

All The Followers Of Science Are Fully Persuaded That The Processes Of Investigation, If Only Pushed Far Enough, Will Give One Certain Solution To Each Question To Which They Can Be Applied.... This Great Law Is Embodied In The Conception Of Truth And Reality. The Opinion Which Is Fated To Be Ultimately Agreed To By All Who Investigate Is What We Mean By The Truth, And The Object Represented In This Opinion Is The Real.

The Consciousness Of A General Idea Has A Certain "unity Of The Ego" In It, Which Is Identical When It Passes From One Mind To Another. It Is, Therefore, Quite Analogous To A Person, And Indeed, A Person Is Only A Particular Kind Of General Idea.

The Pragmatist Knows That Doubt Is An Art Which Hs To Be Acquired With Difficulty.

True Science Is Distinctively The Study Of Useless Things. For The Useful Things Will Get Studied Without The Aid Of Scientific Men. To Employ These Rare Minds On Such Work Is Like Running A Steam Engine By Burning Diamonds.