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Each one of us is... called upon to give a judgment upon an immense variety of problems, crucial for our social existence. If that judgment confirms measures and conduct tending to the increased welfare of society, then it may be termed a moral, or, better, a social judgment.

— Karl Pearson The Grammar of Science (1900)

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The only remedy, if one be possible at all, is to alter the relative fertility of the good and the bad stocks in the community.

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

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

The first demand of the state upon the individual is not for self-sacrifice but for self-development.

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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.

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