"The phrase 'nature and nurture' is a convenient……" — Francis Galton
"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 composed. Nature is all that a man brings with himself into the world; nurture is every influence without that affects him after his birth."
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Francis Galton
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16 Quotes by Francis Galton
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It is always the case with the best work, that it is misrepresented, and disparaged at first, for it takes…
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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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It is notorious that the same discovery is frequently made simultaneously and quite independently, by different persons. Thus, to speak…
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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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One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection.…
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All male animals, including men, when they are in love, are apt to behave in ways that seem ludicrous to…
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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…
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The aim of eugenics is to represent each class or sect by its best specimens; that done, to leave them…
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What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his power,…
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I think one of the biggest things that affects young women is when they hear their mothers using fat talk.
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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
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With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.
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We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all.
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What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is…
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If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's…
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Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on…
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