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The Grammar of Science QUOTES

The Grammar of Science QUOTES

1 " If I have put the case of science at all correctly, the reader will have recognised that modern science does much more than demand that it shall be left in undisturbed possession of what the theologian and metaphysician please to term its 'legitimate field'. It claims that the whole range of phenomena, mental as well as physical-the entire universe-is its field. It asserts that the scientific method is the sole gateway to the whole region of knowledge. "

― Karl Pearson , The Grammar of Science

2 " When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of that universe, every phase of present or past life therein, has been examined, classified, and co-ordinated with the rest, then the mission of science will be completed. What is this but saying that the task of science can never end till man ceases to be, till history is no longer made, and development itself ceases? "

― Karl Pearson , The Grammar of Science

3 " The unity of all science consists alone in its method, not in its material. "

― Karl Pearson , The Grammar of Science

4 " The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming a judgment upon these facts unbiased by personal feeling is characteristic of what may be termed the scientific frame of mind. "

― Karl Pearson , The Grammar of Science

5 " The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification—judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the individual mind—essentially sum up the aim and method of modern science. The scientific man has above all things to strive at self-elimination in his judgments, to provide an argument which is as true for each individual mind as for his own. "

― Karl Pearson , The Grammar of Science

6 " There are many signs that a sound idealism is surely replacing, as a basis for natural philosophy, the crude materialism of the older physicists. "

― Karl Pearson , The Grammar of Science

7 " Science is in reality a classification and analysis of the contents of the mind. […] In truth, the field of science is much more consciousness than an external world. "

― Karl Pearson , The Grammar of Science