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Karl Pearson has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot…
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Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.
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"Endow scientific research and we shall know the truth, when and where it is possible to ascertain it;" but the counterblast is…
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If I have put the case of science at all correctly, the reader will have recognised that modern science does much more…
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When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of that universe, every phase of present or past life therein, has been examined,…
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The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming…
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The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification-judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the…
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The unity of all science consists alone in its method, not in its material.
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The scientific method of examining facts is not peculiar to one class of phenomena and to one class of workers; it is…
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I look upon statistics as the handmaid of medicine, but on that very account I hold that it befits medicine to treat…
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That which is measured improves. That which is measured and reported improves exponentially.
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If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.
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Just because you say something doesn't make it controversial, and it doesn't make you a bad person.
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When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble…
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Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
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I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant. Nothing has…
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I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you had in…
— Jimmy Carter
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I worked for George Bush. I'm proud to have worked for him. I think that a lot of the most controversial things…
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You're going to die soon enough anyway; even if it's a hundred years from now, that's still the blink of a cosmic…
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Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.
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In far too many families with young children, both parents are working, when, if they really took an honest look at the…
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The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is absolutely anti-historical.…
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