"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 endow re….

There is no short cut to truth, no way to gain a knowledge of the universe except through the gateway of scientific method..

No matter how much we enjoy following the lives of the rich and famous, we know the world is affected more deeply by quiet, even invisible acts of in….

The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance….

All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoverie….

Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man..

The right to live does not connote the right of each man to reproduce his kind ... As we lessen the stringency of natural selection, and more and mor….

It 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 jo….

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 proper respect….

The 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….

When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of that universe, every phase of present or past life therein, has been examined, classified, and c….

The record of a month's roulette playing at Monte Carlo can afford us material for discussing the foundations of knowledge..

The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming a judgm….

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 it shall be l….

The unity of all science consists alone in its method, not in its material..

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 in the 1890s. I rece….

The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification-judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies….

Statistics is the grammar of science..

That which is measured improves. That which is measured and reported improves exponentially..