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

- Karl Pearson

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

- 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…

- 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…

- 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…

- 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

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

- 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…

- 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.

- Karl Pearson