“Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all.”

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Source: A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God (1908), IV

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

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