Quotes from Karl Pearson

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

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.

There is no short cut to truth, no way to gain a knowledge of the universe except through the gateway of scientific method.

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.

Statistics is the grammar of science.

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

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.