Karl Pearson

“The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science.”

“That which is measured improves.”

“A reserved and sober judgment is the very citadel of the scientific man.”

“The scientific man has above all things to strive at self-elimination in his judgments, to provide an argument which is as true for each individual mind as for his own.”

“Ignorance is the source of bad citizenship.”

“The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.”

“Let us be honest and admit that the stability of property and the stability of society are unthinkable without the stability of the currency.”

“Statistics is the grammar of science.”

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

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

“The scope of science is to ascertain truth in every possible branch of knowledge.”