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Men Quotes by Karl Pearson
- 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…
- 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 and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification-judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the individual mind-essentially sum…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
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- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
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