Applied science Quote by Theodosius Dobzhansky

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

— Michael Crichton

Eugenics is the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either physically or…

— Francis Galton

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

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

— Frederick Osborn

“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

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

A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to…

— George Bernard Shaw

“Natural selection has served as a kind of intellectual sieve, producing brains and intelligences increasingly competent to deal with the laws of nature.”

— Carl Sagan

As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give…

— Sam Brownback

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

“If artificial selection can make such major changes in so short a period of time, what must natural selection, working over billions of years,…

— Carl Sagan

The real problem with natural selection is that it makes no intuitive sense. It is like quantum physics; we may intellectually grasp it, but…

— Paul Bloom