Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes:
Ocupation: Philosopher
Life: September 10, 1839 - April 19, 1914
Birthday: September 10
Death: April 19
It is terrible to see how a single unclear idea, a single formula without meaning, lurking in a young man's head, will sometimes act like an obstruction of inert matter in an artery, hindering the nutrition of the brain and condemning its victim to pine away in the fullness of his intellectual vigor and in the midst of intellectual plenty.
source: Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). “The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)”, p.127, Indiana University Press
topic: Men, Ideas, Brain, Condemning, Arteries, Unclear
