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> [“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.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-galton/poor-humanity-i-often-feel-that-the-tableland-of-sanity-upon-which/)

[Francis Galton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-galton/)

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## More by Francis Galton

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-galton/the-cat-is-the-only-non-gregarious-domestic-animal-it-is-retained-by/)

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> [The publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as it did…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-galton/the-publication-in-1859-of-the-origin-of-species-by-charles-darwin/)

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> [What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his power, so it becomes his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-galton/what-nature-does-blindly-slowly-and-ruthlessly-man-may-do-providently/)

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> [A really intelligent nation might be held together by far stronger forces than are derived from the purely gregarious instincts. A nation need not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-galton/a-really-intelligent-nation-might-be-held-together-by-far-stronger/)

[Francis Galton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-galton/)

> [“Poor humanity! I often feel that the tableland of sanity upon which most of us dwell, is small in area, with unfenced precipices on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-galton/poor-humanity-i-often-feel-that-the-tableland-of-sanity-upon-which/)

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> [Characteristics cling to families.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-galton/characteristics-cling-to-families/)

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> [Exercising the right of occasional suppression and slight modification, it is truly absurd to see how plastic a limited number of observations become, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-galton/exercising-the-right-of-occasional-suppression-and-slight/)

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> [Well-washed and well-combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-galton/well-washed-and-well-combed-domestic-pets-grow-dull-they-miss-the/)

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> [Englishmen Francis Galton to describe the "science" of bettering human stock and the elimination of unwanted characteristics... and individuals. Galton proposed societal intervention for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-galton/englishmen-francis-galton-to-describe-the-science-of-bettering-human/)

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> [ \[Statistics are\] the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-galton/statistics-are-the-only-tools-by-which-an-opening-can-be-cut-through/)

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> [The conditions that direct the order of . . . the living world . . . are marked by their persistence in improving the birthright of successive generations.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-galton/the-conditions-that-direct-the-order-of-the-living-world-are-marked/)

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> [We greatly want a brief word to express the science of improving stock, which is by no means confined to questions of judicious mating,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-galton/we-greatly-want-a-brief-word-to-express-the-science-of-improving/)

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> [Whenever you can, count.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-galton/whenever-you-can-count/)

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> [It is always the case with the best work, that it is misrepresented, and disparaged at first, for it takes a curiously long time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-galton/it-is-always-the-case-with-the-best-work-that-it-is-misrepresented/)

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> [The inferiority of photographs to the best works of artists, so far as resemblance is concerned, lies in their catching no more than a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-galton/the-inferiority-of-photographs-to-the-best-works-of-artists-so-far-as/)

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