Karl Pearson Quotes

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• Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember how keenly I felt this when…
• All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries.
• Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.
• "Endow scientific research and we shall know the truth, when and where it is possible to ascertain it;" but the counterblast is at hand: "To…
• If I have put the case of science at all correctly, the reader will have recognised that modern science does much more than demand that…
• When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of that universe, every phase of present or past life therein, has been examined, classified, and co-ordinated…
• The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming a judgment upon…
• The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification-judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the individual mind-essentially sum…
• The unity of all science consists alone in its method, not in its material.
• The scientific method of examining facts is not peculiar to one class of phenomena and to one class of workers; it is applicable to social…
• I look upon statistics as the handmaid of medicine, but on that very account I hold that it befits medicine to treat her handmaid with…
• That which is measured improves. That which is measured and reported improves exponentially.
• Statistics is the grammar of science.
• It is the old experience that a rude instrument in the hand of a master craftsman will achieve more than the finest tool wielded by…
• The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description…
• There is no shortcut to truth, no way to gain knowledge of the universe except through the gateway of the scientific method.

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