Karl Pearson Quotes
That which is measured improves. That which is measured and reported improves exponentially.
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.
There is no short cut to truth, no way to gain a knowledge of the universe except through the gateway of scientific method.
The unity of all science consists alone in its method, not in its material.
Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.
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.
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 journeyman.
The record of a month's roulette playing at Monte Carlo can afford us material for discussing the foundations of knowledge.