"That which is measured improves. That which is……" — Karl Pearson
"That which is measured improves. That which is measured and reported improves exponentially."
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Karl Pearson
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16 Quotes by Karl Pearson
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Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember how…
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All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but…
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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…
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If I have put the case of science at all correctly, the reader will have recognised that modern science does…
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When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of that universe, every phase of present or past life therein, has…
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The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit…
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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…
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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;…
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I look upon statistics as the handmaid of medicine, but on that very account I hold that it befits medicine…
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Statistics is the grammar of science.
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As we've gotten more successful, there's a gap between the speed of our publishing pipeline and the speed of our…
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The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships,…
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Each new machine or technique, in a sense, changes all existing machines and techniques, by permitting us to put them…
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Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital…
— E. O. Wilson
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On a perfect planet such as might be acceptable to a physicist, one might predict that from its origin the…
— Simon Conway Morris
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The advance of technology, like the growth of population and industry, has also been proceeding exponentially.
— Unknown Author
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Some months ago we discovered that certain light elements emit positrons under the action of alpha particles. Our latest experiments…
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While the earnings of a minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity…
— Pope Francis
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The United States does not have a monopoly on crazy people. It's not the only country that has psychosis. And…
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Envy hurt exponentially more than heartbreak because your soul was torn in two, half soaring with happiness for another person,…
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Righteous women have changed the course of history and will continue to do so, and their influence will spread and…
— Julie B. Beck
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We're not unique. We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about…
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