"It is notorious that the same discovery is……" — Francis Galton
"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 in late years, the discoveries of photography, of electric telegraphy, and of the planet Neptune through theoretical calculations, have all their rival claimants. It would seem, that discoveries are usually made when the time is ripe for them-that is to say, when the ideas from which they naturally flow are fermenting in the minds of many men."
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Francis Galton
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16 Quotes by Francis Galton
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Exercising the right of occasional suppression and slight modification, it is truly absurd to see how plastic a limited number…
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Eugenics is the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future…
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