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" Until the phenomena of any branch of knowledge have been submitted to measurement and number it cannot assume the status and dignity of a science. "
The American Mathematical Monthly: The Official Journal of the Mathematical ... - Page 411
1920
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Biometrika, Volume 13

1921 - 576 pages
...APPLIED STATISTICS The Biometric Laboratory (assisted by a grant from the Worshipful Company of Drapers) Until the phenomena of any branch of knowledge have...cannot assume the status and dignity of a science.. FRANCIS GALTON. Under the direction of Professor KARL PEARSON, FRS Assistants: Dr JULIA BELL, ES PEARSON,...
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Eugenics Laboratory Lecture Series, Issues 1-10

University College, London. Francis Galton Laboratory for Eugenics - 1909 - 520 pages
...which form the motto of our Biometric Laboratory: 60 RECENT MISINTERPRETATIONS OF NATURE AND NURTURE "Until the phenomena of any branch of knowledge have...cannot assume the status and dignity of a science." Those who do not realise that this was the essence of Galton's teaching, those who believe that they...
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Eugenics Laboratory Lecture Series

Galton Laboratory for National Eugenics - 1911 - 394 pages
...Student in Craniometry : Vacant. Until the phenomena of any branch of knowledge have been subjected to measurement and number, it cannot assume the status and dignity of a science. — FRANCIS GALTON. The Laboratory is assisted by a grant from the Worshipful Company of Drapers. It...
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Annals of Ophthalmology, Volume 24

1915 - 894 pages
...number of pedigrees of albinotic stock is necessary for this study. Francis Galton put it in this way: "Until the phenomena of any branch of knowledge have...cannot assume the status* and dignity of a science." In recent personal communication from Mr. Karl Pearson5 and Mr. CH Usher, they express a desire for...
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Eugenics Laboratory Lecture Series, Issue 3

1915 - 72 pages
...reality is summed up in the words of Galton himself, which form the motto of our Biometric Laboratory : "Until the phenomena of any branch of knowledge have...cannot assume the status and dignity of a science." Those who do not realise that this was the essence of Galton's teaching, those who believe that they...
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Statistiche Rundschau, Volume 8

1927 - 490 pages
...spolupracovníka M. Greenwood a. :) Mozno tu pripomenouti nëkolik vyroku: Fia neis Galton praví: »Until the phenomena of any branch of knowledge have...cannot assume the status and dignity of a science«. (Dokud jevy nëjakého oboru poznání nebyly podrobeny méfení a cislu, nemuze si obor pfisvojovatj...
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Testing Intelligence and Achievement

Albert Julius Levine, Louis Marks - 1928 - 424 pages
...was actuated by the ideal "that until the phenomena of any branch of knowledge have been subjected to measurement and number, it cannot assume the status and dignity of a science." /J\ NORMAL CURVE OF DISTRIBUTION Galton's influence upon the mental testing movement is enormous. His...
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The Pedagogical Seminary and Journal of Genetic Psychology, Volume 31

1924 - 444 pages
...scientific when he wrote, "that until the phenomena of any branch of knowledge have been subjected to measurement and number, it cannot assume the status and dignity of a science." Galton's interest in variabilities grew out of his contact ] with the work of his illustrious cousin,...
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Handbook of Creativity

Robert J. Sternberg - 1999 - 508 pages
...In 1879, Francis Galton said, "Until the phenomenon of anv branch of knowledge have been subjected to measurement and number, it cannot assume the status and dignity of a science" (Crovitz, 1970, p. 24). The positive side is that for those seeking an important, open research question,...
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Information Processing and Living Systems

Vladimir B. Baji?, Tin Wee Tan - 2005 - 800 pages
...Galton (1879) also thought that "until the phenomena of any branch of knowledge have been subjected to measurement and number, it cannot assume the status and dignity of a science" (reprinted in Ref. 153, p. 24). The second position is due to educator and administrator Robert Hutchins:...
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