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 left in undisturbed possession of what the theologian and metaphysician please to term its 'legitimate field'. It claims that the whole range of phenomena, mental as well as physical-the entire universe-is its field. It asserts that the scientific method is the sole gateway to the whole region of knowledge.
That which is measured improves. That which is measured and reported improves exponentially. - Karl Pearson
That which is measured improves. That which is measured and reported improves exponentially.
- Karl Pearson
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… - Karl Pearson
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…
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… - Karl Pearson
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… - Karl Pearson
The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance…
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… - Karl Pearson
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… - Karl Pearson
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 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… - Karl Pearson
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…
Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man. - Karl Pearson
Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.
There is no short cut to truth, no way to gain a knowledge of the universe except through the gateway of scientific method. - Karl Pearson
There is no short cut to truth, no way to gain a knowledge of the universe except through the gateway of scientific method.
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