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Our conception of chance is one of law and order in large numbers; it is not that idea of chaotic incidence which vexed the mediaeval mind.

— Karl Pearson The Chances of Death (1895)

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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.

The Grammar of Science (1900)

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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