Karl Pearson on Time
Browse 4 quotations attributed to Karl Pearson, catalogued under time, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Karl Pearson, entry #239356: "For the present the Grammar may yet be of service. After an eight years' life and... 4000 copies, it reappears in a revised and enlarged form."
Attributed to Karl Pearson, entry #79330: "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 fo…"
4 Quotes by Karl Pearson on Time
"For the present the Grammar may yet be of service. After an eight years' life and... 4000 copies, it reappears in a revised and enlarged form."
"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. The unity of all science consists alone in its method, not in its material."
"e find out of 16,019 trials, 8053 red numbers instead of 8009 or 8010. We have a deviation of 43 to 44. The standard deviation is about 63; a deviation as great as or greater than 44 would occur in about half the number of times in which 16,019 returns were examined. It presents therefore nothing of the remarkable or improbable."
"Although science claims the whole universe as its field... it confesses that its ignorance is more widely extended than its knowledge. In this very confession... it finds a safeguard for future progress. Science cannot... allow theologian or metaphysician... to the foreshore of our present ignorance, and so hinder the development in due time..."