“The entire universe is perfused with signs, if it is not composed exclusively of signs.”

—  Charles Sanders Peirce

Quoted in Essays in Zoosemiotics (1990) by Thomas A. Sebeok

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American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist 1839–1914

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