Pearson shut out of science everything which the nineteenth-century had brought into it. He told his scholars that they must put up with a fraction of the universe, and a very small fraction at that - the circle reached by the senses, where sequence could be taken for granted. (Henry Adams)

Pearson shut out of science everything which the nineteenth-century had brought into it. He told his scholars that they must put up with a fraction of the universe, and a very small fraction at that - the circle reached by the senses, where sequence could be taken for granted.

Henry Adams

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