Charles Pierce

Person · Open Library

Born

1951

Works

19

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

US

Active from

1921-08-08

Active to

1991-02-24

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

54

Total plays

372

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 36,397x

2. The Pittsburgh sleep quality index: A new instrument for psychiatric practice and research

   · 1989 · cited 29,170x

3. Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning

   · 2015 · cited 23,703x

4. Array programming with NumPy

   · 2020 · cited 23,379x

5. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 20,832x

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Quotes

• “True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men.”
• “Few persons care to study logic, because everybody conceives himself to be proficient enough in the art of reasoning already. But I observe that this satisfaction is limited to one's own ratiocination and does not extend to that of other men. We come to the full possession of our power of drawing inferences the last of all our faculties, for it is not so much a natural gift as a long and difficult art.”
• “The Protestant churches generally hold that the elements of the sacrament are flesh and blood only in a tropical sense; they nourish our souls as meat and the juice of it would our bodies. But the Catholics maintain that they are literally just that; although they possess all the sensible qualities of wafer-cakes and diluted wine. But we can have no conception of wine except what may enter into a belief, either —”
• “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 … 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.”
• “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.”
• “You are of all my friends the one who illustrates pragmatism in its most needful forms. You are a jewel of pragmatism.”

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