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Science Quotes by Karl Pearson
- "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.
- 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…
- Statistics is the grammar of science.
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