"The classification of facts and the formation of……" — Karl Pearson
"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 up the aim and method of modern science. The scientific man has above all things to strive at self-elimination in his judgments, to provide an argument which is as true for each individual mind as for his own."
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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 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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That which is measured improves. That which is measured and reported improves exponentially.
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Statistics is the grammar of science.
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