The phrase 'nature and nurture' is a convenient jingle of words, for it separates under two distinct heads the innumerable elements of which personality is composed. Nature is all that a man brings with himself into the world; nurture is… — 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 be a mob of slaves, clinging to one another through fear, and for the most part incapable of self-government, and begging to be led; but it might consist of vigorous self-reliant men, knit to one another… — Francis Galton Copy Share
“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 the furtherance of "racial quality," maintaining that "Jews are specialized for a parasitical existence upon other nations" and that "except by sterilization I cannot yet see any way of checking the produce of the unfit who… — Francis Galton Copy Share
[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, but which, especially in the case of man, takes cognizance of all influences that tend in however remote a degree to give to the more suitable races or strains of blood a better chance of prevailing… — Francis Galton Copy Share
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