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Karl Pearson , mathématicien britannique, est un des fondateurs de la statistique moderne appliquée à la biomédecine .

Il est principalement connu pour avoir développé le coefficient de corrélation et le test du χ². Il est aussi l'un des fondateurs de la revue Biometrika, dont il a été rédacteur en chef pendant 36 ans et qu'il a hissée au rang des meilleures revues de statistique mathématique. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. mars 1857 – 27. avril 1936
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Karl Pearson: Citations en anglais

“[R]andom spinning being assumed, the distribution of chance in the game depends upon the mechanical perfection of the teetotum; it must be equally likely to fall on all its thirty-seven sides, i.e. the frequency of all the numbers must in the long run be very nearly the same.”

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"The Scientific Aspect of Monte Carlo Roulette" (1894)

“[S]mall as our increase in knowledge may be, concrete systems of religion have not kept pace with it. They persist in explaining by myth, portions of the relation of... which we have true knowledge. Hence we see the danger, if not the absolute evil of any myth at all.”

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The Ethic of Freethought (Mar 6, 1883)

“[O]ur [small] knowledge of the relation of finite to infinite... is... continually increasing—science and philosophy are continally presenting... broader views of the relation of man to nature and of individual thought to abstract thought.”

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The Ethic of Freethought (Mar 6, 1883)

“I simply assert that the universe alters, is "becoming;" what it is becoming I will not venture to say. ...the individual too is altering, is not only a "being" but also a "becoming."”

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These alterations... I shall—merely for convenience—term life.
The Ethic of Freethought (Mar 6, 1883)

“[M]y axiom runs as follows: "The whole is not identical with a part." This axiom leads us at once to a problem. What relation has the part to the whole?”

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The Ethic of Freethought (Mar 6, 1883)

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