One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that would…

- Francis Galton

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

We greatly want a brief word to express the science of improving stock, which is by no means confined to questions of judicious mating, but which, es…

- Francis Galton

Characteristics cling to families.

- Francis Galton

Englishmen Francis Galton to describe the "science" of bettering human stock and the elimination of unwanted characteristics... and individuals. Galt…

- Francis Galton

There is a steady check in an old civilisation upon the fertility of the abler classes: the improvident and unambitious are those who chiefly keep up…

- 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 personal…

- Francis Galton

The aim of eugenics is to represent each class or sect by its best specimens; that done, to leave them to work out their common civilization in their…

- Francis Galton

I HAVE no patience with the hypothesis occasionally expressed, and often implied, especially in tales written to teach children to be good, that babi…

- Francis Galton