Becoming Quote 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…

— Francis Galton

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

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

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

“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

Characteristics cling to families.

— Francis Galton

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

Well-washed and well-combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas.

— Francis Galton

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

[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

The conditions that direct the order of . . . the living world . . . are marked by their persistence in improving the birthright of successive generations.

— Francis Galton

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