Karl Pearson Quote

'That all science is description and not explanation, that the mystery of change in the inorganic world is just as great and just as omnipresent as in the organic world, are statements which will appear platitudes to the next generation.


The Grammar of Science, Preface to the Second Edition (p. vii), Adam & Charles Black. 1900


'That all science is description and not explanation, that the mystery of change in the inorganic world is just as great and just as omnipresent as...

'That all science is description and not explanation, that the mystery of change in the inorganic world is just as great and just as omnipresent as...

'That all science is description and not explanation, that the mystery of change in the inorganic world is just as great and just as omnipresent as...

'That all science is description and not explanation, that the mystery of change in the inorganic world is just as great and just as omnipresent as...