Karl Pearson - The Grammar of Science

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The laws of science are products of the human mind rather than' factors of the external world. Science endeavors to provide a mental resume of the universe, and its last great claim to our support is the capacity it has for satisfying our cravings for a brief description of the history of the world.

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The touchstone of science is the universal validity of its results for all normally constituted and duly instructed minds.

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

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The statistician dealing with heredity is like the physicist dealing with the atom, he can say little or nothing of the individual, his knowledge is of the group containing great numbers.

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Minds trained to scientific methods are less likely to be led by mere appeal to the passions or by blind emotional excitement to sanction acts which in the end may lead to social disaster.

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The field of science is unlimited; its material is endless, every group of natural phenomena, every phase of social life, every stage of past or present development is material for science.

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Every great advance of science opens our eyes to facts which we had failed before to observe, and makes new demands on our powers of interpretation.

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Scientific Law is [a] description, not a prescription.

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The material of science is coextensive with the whole physical universe, not only that universe as it now exists, but with its past history and the past history of all life therein.

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Hundreds of men have allowed their imagination to solve the universe, but the men who have contributed to our real understanding of natural phenomena have been those who were unstinted in their application of criticism to the product of their imaginations.

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The smallest group of facts, if properly classified and logically dealt with, will form a stone which has its proper place in the great building of knowledge, wholly independent of the individual workman who has shaped it.

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The scientific habit of mind is one which may be acquired by all, and the readiest means of attaining to it ought to be placed within the reach of all.

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