Thus, those facts that medical observation could deduce from clinical experience, or that each one of us could deduce with the naked eye by observing, for example, a significant imbalance between height and weight, were governed, according to Quetelet, by laws that should be written with mathematical characters.
Es así que, aquellos hechos que la observación médica podía deducir de la experiencia clínica, o que cada uno de nosotros podría deducir a simple vista al observar, por ejemplo, una desproporción significativa entre altura y peso, responden, para Quetelet, a leyes que deben ser escritas con caracteres matemáticos.