6 Quotes & Sayings By Karl Pearson

Karl Pearson (1857–1936) was a Scottish mathematician and statistician, who developed the Pearson correlation coefficient. He is known as the "father of modern statistics" and one of the founders of biostatistics. Pearson's father died when he was 12 years old, so he was educated privately until he was 16. At age 17, he enrolled at Glasgow University to study mathematics, but soon decided to switch to physics Read more

He earned his degree in 1879, with a thesis entitled The Theory of Optical Spectra.

Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions...
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Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man. Karl Pearson
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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. Karl Pearson
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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 that the task of science can never end till man ceases to be, till history is no longer made, and development itself ceases? Karl Pearson
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The unity of all science consists alone in its method, not in its material. Karl Pearson
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Statistics is the grammar of science. Karl Pearson