Quotes by Karl Pearson

About Karl Pearson:

Karl Pearson was an influential English mathematician and biostatician. He has been credited with establishing the discipline of mathematical statistics, and contributed significantly to the field of biometrics, meteorology, theories of social Darwinism and eugenics. Pearson was also a protégé and biographer of Sir Francis Galton.
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When 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, then the mission of science will be completed. What is this but saying tha...

Karl Pearson

, and the habit of forming a judgment upon these facts unbiased by personal feeling is characteristic of what may be termed the scientific frame of mind.

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 . The scientific man has above all things to striv...

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

Karl Pearson

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...

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Her statistics were more than a study... For her, was the hero as scientist, and the presentation copy of his Physique Sociale is annotated by her on every page. believed—and in all the actions of her life acted upon that belief—that the administ...

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The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe.

Karl Pearson

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

Karl Pearson

The starting point of 's theory of evolution is precisely the existence of those differences between individual members of a race or species which morphologists for the most part rightly neglect. The first condition necessary, in order that any proce...

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There is nothing opposed in Biometry and . Your and I worked that out at Peppards [on the Chilterns] and you will see it referred in the Biometrika memoir. The formula leads up to the 'ancestral law'. What we fought against was the slovenliness in ap...

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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 received the Medal and the Medal. When one is old, one wants no encouragement and one goes on with one's ...

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Statistics is the grammar of science.

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Author Bio

  • NameKarl Pearson
  • DescriptionEnglish mathematician and biometrician
  • BornMarch 27, 1857
  • DiedApril 27, 1936
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionMathematician; Historian Of Mathematics; Statistician; Historian; Philosopher
  • AwardsFellow Of The Royal Society