"The systematic study of social numbers in the spirit of natural philosophy was pioneered during the 1660s, and was kn…"

"Beginning in 1892, when he took up statistics as his scientific vocation, Karl Pearson devoted himself relentlessly t…"

"A bitter debate in the early twentieth century between "biometricians" and "Mendelians" about how best to study seeme…"

"Our scientific culture, and much of our public life, is based on trust in numbers. They are commonly accepted as the …"

"Scientific education is catholic; it embraces the whole field of human learning. No student can master all knowledge …"

"Honest investigation is but the application of common sense to the solution of the unknown. Science does not wait on …"

"Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libat…"

"The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language."

"Possible ideas and thoughts are vast in number. A distinct word for every distinct idea and thought would require a v…"

"The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, cons…"