Quotes by Francis Galton

About Francis Galton:

Sir Francis Galton was an English Victorian statistician, progressive, polymath, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist and psychometrician. He was knighted in 1909.
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The publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by 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...

Francis Galton

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

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

Author Bio

  • NameFrancis Galton
  • DescriptionBritish polymath: geographer, statistician, pioneer in eugenics
  • AliasesSir Francis Galton
  • BornFebruary 16, 1822
  • DiedJanuary 17, 1911
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionMathematician; Explorer; Anthropologist; Geneticist; Psychologist; Author; Scientist; Meteorologist; Statistician
  • AwardsFellow Of The Royal Society; Copley Medal; Royal Medal; Knight Bachelor