Englishmen Francis Galton to describe the "science" of bettering human stock and the elimination of unwanted characteristics... and individuals. Galton proposed societal… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
We greatly want a brief word to express the science of improving stock, which is by no means confined to questions of… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
The aim of eugenics is to represent each class or sect by its best specimens; that done, to leave them to work… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
Eugenics is the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
The cat is the only non-gregarious domestic animal. It is retained by its extra-ordinary adhesion to the comforts of the house in which it… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
The publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as it did… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his power, so it becomes his… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
A really intelligent nation might be held together by far stronger forces than are derived from the purely gregarious instincts. A nation need not… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
“Poor humanity! I often feel that the tableland of sanity upon which most of us dwell, is small in area, with unfenced precipices on… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
Exercising the right of occasional suppression and slight modification, it is truly absurd to see how plastic a limited number of observations become, in… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
Well-washed and well-combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas. — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
Englishmen Francis Galton to describe the "science" of bettering human stock and the elimination of unwanted characteristics... and individuals. Galton proposed societal intervention for… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
[Statistics are] the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
The conditions that direct the order of . . . the living world . . . are marked by their persistence in improving the birthright of successive generations. — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
We greatly want a brief word to express the science of improving stock, which is by no means confined to questions of judicious mating,… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
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