So in my last post i did left why Pearson studied diverse subjects. Let us continue it into more details. He rushed from science to philosophy, and from philosophy to old friends the poets and then he was over wearied by too much idealism, he then became fancy became practical then he returned to science. His exact quote is as below , this is from his first book "The New Werther"
I rush from science to philosophy, and from philosophy to our old friends the poets; and then, over-wearied by too much idealism, I fancy I become practical in returning to science. Have you ever attempted to conceive all there is in the world worth knowing - that not one subject in the universe is unworthy of study? The giants of literature, the mysteries of many-dimensional space, the attempts of Boltzmann and Crookes to penetrate Nature's very laboratory, the Kantian theory of the universe, and the latest discoveries in embryology, with their wonderful tales of the development of life - what an immensity beyond our grasp! ... Mankind seems on the verge of a new and glorious discovery. What Newton did to simplify the planetary motions must now be done to unite in one whole the various isolated theories of mathematical physics.
If we just look in to his quote it makes us more deterministic and positive to learn things. Moreover, it is highly motivating for us in this developing world. Pearson's work was all-embracing in the wide application and development of mathematical statistics, and encompassed the fields of biology, epidemiology, anthropometry, medicine, psychology and social history. In 1901, with Weldon and Galton, he founded the journal Biometrika whose object was the development of statistical theory. He edited this journal until his death. He was known for his prominent free thinker and socialist.
More about his works would be discussed in further blogs.
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