27 Quotes by Karl Pearson

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

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 more of the weaklings and the unfit survive, we must increase the standard, mental and physical, of parentage.

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

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, and not to prostitute her services for controversial or personal purposes.

The 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 by personal feeling is characteristic of what may be termed the scientific frame of mind.

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

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

Statistics is the grammar of science.

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