Karl Pearson Quotes

#1. They who, without any previous knowledge of us, think amiss of us, do us no harm; they attack not us, but the phantom of their own imagination.

Jean De La Bruyere

#2. 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.

Karl Pearson

#3. This was a little house, with a ceiling that kept getting higher and higher, a hot place with no windows. This was anger.

Helen Oyeyemi

#4. TRAVIS: I never said I like boys!
GORDO: Ever beat off to Penthouse?
TRAVIS: No.
GORDO: Ever collect baseball cards?
TRAVIS: No.
GORDO: How old is Barbra Streisand?
TRAVIS: 36. Three weeks ago.
GORDO:What do you need - a fucking blueprint?

Steve Kluger

#5. The tragedy is that Dell didn't win it - we lost it.

Steve Jobs

#6. Am I fated to have the men I've loved torment me in my weakest moments?

Stephanie Dray

#7. Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you. Go for that communion, that real communion with your soul, and the discipline of expressing that communion with others. That doesn't come from competition. That comes from being one with what you are doing.

Anna Deavere Smith

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

Karl Pearson

#9. That which is measured improves. That which is measured and reported improves exponentially.

Karl Pearson

#10. Successful leaders have learned that no failure is final, whether his own failure or someone else's. No one is perfect, and we cannot be right all the time. Failures and even feelings of inadequacy can provoke humility and serve to remind a leader who is really in charge.

J. Oswald Sanders

#11. The right to live does not connote the right of each man to reproduce his kind ... As we lessen the stringency of natural selection, and more and more of the weaklings and the unfit survive, we must increase the standard, mental and physical, of parentage.

Karl Pearson

#12. The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming a judgment upon these facts unbiased by personal feeling is characteristic of what may be termed the scientific frame of mind.

Karl Pearson

#13. Every place of refuge has its price.

Eagles

#14. The heart easily commends and condemns itself, depending on our wave like performance. That is why we must base our worth in Jesus alone.

Alisa Hope Wagner

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

Karl Pearson

#16. The record of a month's roulette playing at Monte Carlo can afford us material for discussing the foundations of knowledge.

Karl Pearson

#17. It's important to do see the results of your philanthropy while you are alive.

Husnu Ozyegin

#18. Real improvement is of slow growth only.

Seneca The Younger

#19. I look upon statistics as the handmaid of medicine, but on that very account I hold that it befits medicine to treat her handmaid with proper respect, and not to prostitute her services for controversial or personal purposes.

Karl Pearson

#20. It doesn't matter if one man fights or ten thousand; if the one man sees he has no option but to fight, then he will fight, whether he has others on his side or not.

Hans Fallada

#21. 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.

Karl Pearson

#22. 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.

Karl Pearson

#23. Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.

Karl Pearson

#24. Statistics is the grammar of science.

Karl Pearson

#25. Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.

William James