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Pearson, Karl (1857-1936)

From The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Place : United States of America Subject : biography, maths and statistics English mathematician and biometrician who is chiefly remembered for his crucial role in the development of statistics as applied to a wide variety of scientific and social topics. Pearson was born in London on 27 March 1857. He was tutored at home, except for a period 1866-73 when he attended University College School. He began his university studies at King's College, Cambridge, in 1875, where an indication of Pearson's somewhat uncompromising and unconventional spirit is found in his successful pressuring of the authorities to abolish the mandatory classes in divinity for undergraduates. Pearson graduated with high honours in 1879, and was awarded a fellowship of the college 1880-86 that gave him financial independence without obligation and enabled him to travel and study as he pleased. He visited universities in Germany, took a degree in law in 1881 (although he never practised), and was awarded his…
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Karl Pearson is considered the founder of the science of statistics. In developing ways to analyze and represent scientific observations, he laid the groundwork for the development of the field of statistics in the twentieth century. Pearson was born in London, England, on March 27, 1857, to William…
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From The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Place : United States of America Subject : biography, maths and statistics English mathematician and biometrician who is chiefly remembered for his crucial role in the development of statistics as applied to a wide variety of scientific and social topics. Pearson was born in London on 27 March 1857. …
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English mathematician and Professor of Mathematics and Eugenics at University College London. Pearson is generally considered one of the founders of modern statistical theory. When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of [the] universe, every phase of present or past life therein, has been…
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Full text Article SCIENCE, GOAL OF

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English lawyer, statesman, and essayist …the real and legitimate goal of the sciences is the endowment of human life with new inventions and riches. In Great Books of the Western World (Volume 30 ) Novum Organum First Book, Aphorism 81 (p. 120 ) Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Chicago Illinois USA . …
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Full text Article KNOW

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English lawyer, statesman, and essayist If you please, sir, tell me what you do not know… Literary Studies: With a Prefatory Memoir Essay I (p. 39 ) Longmans, Green & Co. London England . 1902. Austrian biochemist In the end, we know nearly everything about nearly ­nothing. …
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Full text Article SCIENCE, GROWTH OF

From Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations
English mathematician There are periods in the growth of science when it is well to turn our attention from its imposing superstructure and to carefully examine its foundations. The Grammar of Science ( 2 nd edition) Preface to the First Edition (p. ix ) Adam & Charles Black. London England . …
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Full text Article SCIENCE, MATERIAL OF

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American marine biologist and author We live in a scientific age, yet we assume that knowledge of science is the prerogative of only a small number of human beings, isolated and priest-like in their laboratories. This is not true. The materials of science are the materials of life itself. Science is…
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Full text Article SCIENCE, FIELD OF

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American philosopher The field of science, however, is large, for it is nothing less than the whole world, the infinite universe in which we live; and the experiences which we make by studying the various phenomena of our surroundings are illimitable and inexhaustible. Is All Science One? The…
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Full text Article SCIENCE, MISSION OF

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French chemist Science appears to have as its mission not merely the satisfaction of man's need of learning and understanding everything, which characterizes the noblest of our faculties; it has another aim, doubtless less brilliant but perhaps more moral, I would almost say more sacred, which…
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