The Economic Problem...the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.

There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.

Ideas shape the course of history.

Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.

Galton's eccentric, sceptical, observing, flashing, cavalry-leader type of mind led him eventually to become the founder of the most important, significant and, I would add, genuine branch of sociology which exists, namely eugenics.

The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.