“Poor humanity! I often feel that the tableland of sanity upon which most of us dwell, is small in area, with unfenced precipices on every side, over any one of which we may fall.” — 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
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
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
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
“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
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
Well-washed and well-combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas. — Francis Galton Copy Share
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
[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
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
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
It is always the case with the best work, that it is misrepresented, and disparaged at first, for it takes a curiously long time… — Francis Galton Copy Share
The inferiority of photographs to the best works of artists, so far as resemblance is concerned, lies in their catching no more than a… — Francis Galton Copy Share
