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 own way.
Francis GaltonEugenics is the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either physically or mentally.
Francis GaltonAll male animals, including men, when they are in love, are apt to behave in ways that seem ludicrous to bystanders.
Francis GaltonThe publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as it did in that of human thought generally. Its effect was to demolish a multitude of dogmatic barriers by a single stroke, and to arouse a spirit of rebellion against all ancient authorities whose positive and unauthenticated statements were contradicted by modern science.
Francis Galton