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...Francis Galton, founder of the eugenics (master race) movement which continues today under the heading of 'population control'.

— David Icke

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

“Galton, by comparison, was more a polymath, and made not insignificant contributions to a whole range of fields. His myriad gifts to the world…

— Adam Rutherford

“In 1874, Francis Galton sent out questionnaires to families and superintendents of various hospitals in order to collect data for estimating the respective shares…

— Adam Rutherford

That eugenics was part of the progressive agenda is one of the most heavily-airbrushed features of history.

— Arnold Kling

“Intellectuals as a class are notoriously prone to fine-sounding theoretical schemes that lead to catastrophe, such as Social Darwinism, Marxism or indeed eugenics.”

— Nicholas Wade

“The gentleman in charge of the Correspondence Courses was plainly doubtful about the prisoner of middle age who was anxious to enroll in a…

— Lewis E. Lawes

Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.

— Albion Woodbury Small

Francis Galton, whose mission it seems to be to ride other men's hobbies to death, has invented the felicitous expression 'structureless germs'.

— James Clerk Maxwell

A great man, who was convinced that the truths of political and moral science are capable of the same certainty as those that form…

— Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

A great social reformer.

— George Bernard Shaw

“At Oxford he learned that the importance of human beings has been vastly over rated by specialists.”

— E.M. Forster