All Francis Galton Quotes
- It is always the case with the best work, that it is misrepresented, and disparaged at first, for it takes a curiously long time for… Become Current
- Exercising the right of occasional suppression and slight modification, it is truly absurd to see how plastic a limited number of observations become, in the… Absurd
- It is notorious that the same discovery is frequently made simultaneously and quite independently, by different persons. Thus, to speak of only a few cases… All
- Whenever you can, count. Count
- 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… Affects
- Eugenics is the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either physically or mentally. Agencies
- One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that… Application
- All male animals, including men, when they are in love, are apt to behave in ways that seem ludicrous to bystanders. All
- Well-washed and well-combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas. Combed
- 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… All
- The aim of eugenics is to represent each class or sect by its best specimens; that done, to leave them to work out their common… Aim
- What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his power, so it becomes his duty… Becomes
- I do not so easily think in words.... after being hard at work having arrived at results that are perfectly clear... I have to translate… Arrived
- [Statistics are] the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those who… Bars
- The publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as it did in… All
- 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 is… Adhesion