Agency Quote by Francis Galton

The aim of eugenics is to represent each class or sect by its best specimens; that done, to leave them to work out their…

— Francis Galton

“The theory of eugenics postulated a crisis of the gene pool leading to the deterioration of the human race. The”

— Michael Crichton

Eugenics, which had started long before my time, had once been defined as including free love and prevention of conception... Recently it had cropped…

— Margaret Sanger

The whole point of the Eugenic pseudo-scientific theories is that they are to be applied wholesale, by some more sweeping and generalizing money power…

— Anonymous

Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science of human betterment.

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

“The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less…

— Nikola Tesla

Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery…

— Gary Wolf

Eugenic goals are most likely to be attained under another name than eugenics.

— Frederick Osborn

Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“My firm conviction is that if wide-spread Eugenic reforms are not adopted during the next hundred years or so, our Western Civilization is inevitably…

— Leonard Darwin

We should not minimize the great outstanding service of Eugenics for critical and diagnostic investigations. It demonstrates ... that uncontrolled fertility is universally correlated…

— Margaret Sanger

The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the…

— Nikola Tesla