Karl PearsonWhen 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 with the rest, the… ▶375LifeTimeTruth
Karl PearsonAll great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries. ✨ Karl Pearson (2007)… ▶375Truth
Karl PearsonThe unity of all science consists alone in its method, not in its material. ✨ Karl Pearson (2007). The Grammar of Science, p.12, Cosimo, Inc.379Thought
Karl PearsonStatistics is the grammar of science.272Life
Karl PearsonIt is the old experience that a rude instrument in the hand of a master craftsman will achieve more than the finest tool wielded by the uninspired journeyman. ✨ Karl Pearson… ▶253Life
Karl PearsonIf I have put the case of science at all correctly, the reader will have recognised that modern science does much more than demand that it shall be left in undisturbed possession … ▶309Reading
Karl PearsonI look upon statistics as the handmaid of medicine, but on that very account I hold that it befits medicine to treat her handmaid with proper respect, and not to prostitute her se… ▶299Time
Karl PearsonEndow scientific research and we shall know the truth, when and where it is possible to ascertain it; but the counterblast is at hand: To endow research is merely to encourage the… ▶237Truth
Karl PearsonThe scientific method of examining facts is not peculiar to one class of phenomena and to one class of workers; it is applicable to social as well as to physical problems, and we … ▶163ThoughtTruth
Karl PearsonThe classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification-judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the individual mind-essent… ▶141ThoughtTruth
Karl PearsonOrder and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man. ✨ Karl Pearson (2007). The Grammar of Sci… ▶208Thought
Karl PearsonThe classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming a judgment upon these facts unbiassed… ▶198ThoughtTruth
Karl PearsonMedals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember how keenly I felt this when in the 1890s. I received the Darwin Medal and the … ▶132Politics
Karl PearsonThat which is measured improves. That which is measured and reported improves exponentially.187Sadness
