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Top 15 Francis Galton Quotes (2025 Update)

Francis Galton Quote: “The phrase ‘nature and nurture’ is a convenient jingle of words, for it separates under two distinct heads the innumerable elements of which personality is composed. Nature is all that a man brings with himself into the world; nurture is every influence without that affects him after his birth.”

1. “The phrase ‘nature and nurture’ is a convenient jingle of words, for it separates under two distinct heads the innumerable elements of which personality is composed. Nature is all that a man brings with himself into the world; nurture is every influence without that affects him after his birth.”

— Francis Galton

Francis Galton Quote: “What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his power, so it becomes his duty to work in that direction.”

2. “What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his power, so it becomes his duty to work in that direction.”

— Francis Galton

Francis Galton Quote: “Whenever you can, count.”

3. “Whenever you can, count.”

— Francis Galton

Francis Galton Quote: “Exercising the right of occasional suppression and slight modification, it is truly absurd to see how plastic a limited number of observations become, in the hands of men with preconceived ideas.”

4. “Exercising the right of occasional suppression and slight modification, it is truly absurd to see how plastic a limited number of observations become, in the hands of men with preconceived ideas.”

— Francis Galton

Francis Galton Quote: “Eugenics is the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either physically or mentally.”

5. “Eugenics 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 Galton

Francis Galton Quote: “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 have perished in barbarous lands.”

6. “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 have perished in barbarous lands.”

— Francis Galton

Francis Galton Quote: “All male animals, including men, when they are in love, are apt to behave in ways that seem ludicrous to bystanders.”

7. “All male animals, including men, when they are in love, are apt to behave in ways that seem ludicrous to bystanders.”

— Francis Galton

Francis Galton Quote: “It is always the case with the best work, that it is misrepresented, and disparaged at first, for it takes a curiously long time for new ideas to become current, and the older men who ought to be capable of taking them in freely, will not do so through prejudice.”

8. “It is always the case with the best work, that it is misrepresented, and disparaged at first, for it takes a curiously long time for new ideas to become current, and the older men who ought to be capable of taking them in freely, will not do so through prejudice.”

— Francis Galton

Francis Galton Quote: “Well-washed and well-combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas.”

9. “Well-washed and well-combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas.”

— Francis Galton

Francis Galton Quote: “The huger the mob, and the greater the apparent anarchy, the more perfect is its sway. It is the supreme law of Unreason. Whenever a large sample of chaotic elements are taken in hand and marshalled in the order of their magnitude, an unsuspected and most beautiful form of regularity proves to have been latent all along.”

10. “The huger the mob, and the greater the apparent anarchy, the more perfect is its sway. It is the supreme law of Unreason. Whenever a large sample of chaotic elements are taken in hand and marshalled in the order of their magnitude, an unsuspected and most beautiful form of regularity proves to have been latent all along.”

— Francis Galton

Francis Galton Quote: “Men who leave their mark on the world are very often those who, being gifted and full of nervous power, are at the same time haunted and driven by a dominant idea, and are therefore within a measurable distance of insanity.”

11. “Men who leave their mark on the world are very often those who, being gifted and full of nervous power, are at the same time haunted and driven by a dominant idea, and are therefore within a measurable distance of insanity.”

— Francis Galton

Francis Galton Quote: “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.”

12. “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 Galton

Francis Galton Quote: “The cat is the only non-gregarious domestic animal. It is retained by its extra-ordinary adhesion to the comforts of the house in which it is reared.”

13. “The cat is the only non-gregarious domestic animal. It is retained by its extra-ordinary adhesion to the comforts of the house in which it is reared.”

— Francis Galton

Francis Galton Quote: “Life is a republic where the individuals are for the most part unconscious that while they are working for themselves they are also working for the public good.”

14. “Life is a republic where the individuals are for the most part unconscious that while they are working for themselves they are also working for the public good.”

— Francis Galton

Francis Galton Quote: “Characteristics cling to families.”

15. “Characteristics cling to families.”

— Francis Galton

Francis Galton Quote: “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 the breed. So the race gradually deteriorates, becoming in each successive generation less fit for a high civilisation.”

16. “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 the breed. So the race gradually deteriorates, becoming in each successive generation less fit for a high civilisation.”

— Francis Galton

Francis Galton Quote: “Some mechanism ought to be devised for shaking elderly people in a healthful way, and in many directions.”

17. “Some mechanism ought to be devised for shaking elderly people in a healthful way, and in many directions.”

— Francis Galton

Francis Galton Quote: “Poor humanity! I often feel that the tableland of sanity upon which most of us dwell, is small in area, with unfenced precipices on every side, over any one of which we may fall.”

18. “Poor humanity! I often feel that the tableland of sanity upon which most of us dwell, is small in area, with unfenced precipices on every side, over any one of which we may fall.”

— Francis Galton

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