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. ADOLPHE QUETELET AffordBoughtComplicatedFalsehoodGroundHypothesisScienceSecureTestTheoriesTruth
The more do individual peculiarities, whether physical or moral, become effaced. ADOLPHE QUETELET EffacedIndividualMoralMorePeculiaritiesPhysical
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. ADOLPHE QUETELET ArrivedCalculationDegreeJudgePerfectionScienceSubmitted
In inquiries of this kind, at the fundamental principle, that the greater the number of individuals observe. ADOLPHE QUETELET CreatorFundamentalIndividualInquiriesKindNumberObservedPrinciple
Whether statistics be an art or a science… or a scientific art. ADOLPHE QUETELET ArtBePoliticalScienceScientificStatisticWhether
It would appear… that moral phenomena, when observed on a great scale, are found to resemble physical phenomena; and we thus arrive. ADOLPHE QUETELET AppearGreatnessMoralNumberPhenomenaScienceWould
And leave in a prominent point of view the general facts, by virtue of which society exists and is preserved. ADOLPHE QUETELET ExistFcatGeneralLeavePointPreservedProminentSocietyVirtue
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. ADOLPHE QUETELET ConvergeJudgingKindMathematicsPerfectionPhysicalProgressScienceTend
