“The more do individual peculiarities, whether physical or moral, become effaced.”

And affords the only secure ground on which the truth or falsehood of the theories and hypotheses of that complicated science can be brought to the test.

We may even judge the degree of perfection to which a science has arrived by the facility with which it may be submitted to calculation.

In inquiries of this kind, at the fundamental principle, that the greater the number of individuals observe.

Whether statistics be an art or a science… or a scientific art.

It would appear… that moral phenomena, when observed on a great scale, are found to resemble physical phenomena; and we thus arrive.

And leave in a prominent point of view the general facts, by virtue of which society exists and is preserved.

It is the basis of social and political dynamics.

The more progress physical sciences make, the more they tend to enter the domain of mathematics, which is a kind of centre to which they all converge.

We concern ourselves little.