Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes About Evolution

Quotes about: Evolution

• All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Evolution, Vague, Definite

  Charles Sanders Peirce, Kenneth Laine Ketner (1992). “Reasoning and the logic of things: the Cambridge conferences lectures of 1898”, Harvard Univ Pr

• Law is par excellence the thing that wants a reason. Now the only possible way of accounting for the laws of nature, and for uniformity in general, is to suppose them results of evolution.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Law, Excellence, Want

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1958). “Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)”, p.148, Courier Corporation

• To suppose universal laws of nature capable of being apprehended by the mind and yet having no reason for their special forms, but standing inexplicable and irrational, is hardly a justifiable position. Uniformities are precisely the sort of facts that need to be accounted for. Law is par excellence the thing that wants a reason. Now the only possible way of accounting for the laws of nature, and for uniformity in general, is to suppose them results of evolution.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Law, Mind, Excellence

  "The Architecture of Theories". The Monist, Volume I, No. 2, p. 161, January 1891.

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