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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…
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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…
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It is notorious that the same discovery is frequently made simultaneously and quite independently, by different persons. Thus, to speak of only…
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Whenever you can, count.
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The phrase 'nature and nurture' is a convenient jingle of words, for it separates under two distinct heads the innumerable elements of…
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Eugenics is the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either…
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One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves…
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All male animals, including men, when they are in love, are apt to behave in ways that seem ludicrous to bystanders.
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Well-washed and well-combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas.
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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…
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The aim of eugenics is to represent each class or sect by its best specimens; that done, to leave them to work…
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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…
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It is notorious that the same discovery is frequently made simultaneously and quite independently, by different persons. Thus, to speak of only…
— Francis Galton
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Le Verrier-without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky-had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and, as…
— Camille Flammarion
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Sir,-The Planet [Neptune] whose position you marked out actually exists. On the day on which your letter reached me, I found a…
— Unknown Author
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This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ…
— Unknown Author
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The discovery in 1846 of the planet Neptune was a dramatic and spectacular achievement of mathematical astronomy. The very existence of this…
— James R Newman
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It is interesting to observe with what singular unanimity the farthest sundered nations and generations consent to give completeness and roundness to…
— Henry David Thoreau
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We see it [the as-yet unseen, probable new planet, Neptune] as Columbus saw America from the coast of Spain. Its movements have…
— William Herschel
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When you have a movie about people landing from planet Neptune, you suspend disbelief. I totally get it. But I like doing…
— Will Gluck
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I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. I…
— Zooey Deschanel
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I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me.
— Zooey Deschanel
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