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

Quote by Francis Galton

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Francis Galton was a British polymath known for his work in statistics, anthropology, eugenics, and psychology. He was the half-cousin of Charles Darwin and is often credited with coining the term 'eugenics'. Galton's contributions to the field of statistics include the development of regression analysis and the application of correlation. He also conducted extensive research on heredity and intelligence, which influenced later theories in these areas. more

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“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, especially in the case of man, takes cognizance of all influences that tend in however remote a degree to give to the more suitable races or strains of blood a better chance of prevailing speedily over the less suitable than they otherwise would have had. The word eugenics would sufficiently express the idea.”

Men Want Giving Mean Ideas Science Chance Race Cases Blood Influence Degrees Improving Strain Confined Suitable Eugenics Prevailing Mating

Author:Francis Galton

“Man is the only living being who has a developed self-awareness and death-awareness.”

Men Self Awareness Self Awareness

Author:Theodosius Dobzhansky

“No known human group... simply throw out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices burial of dead individuals of its own species.”

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Author:Theodosius Dobzhansky

“The living world is not a single array... connected by unbroken series of intergrades.”

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Book:Genetics and the origin of species

Source: Genetics and the origin of species

“Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light it becomes a pile of sundry facts -- some of them interesting or curious but making no meaningful picture as a whole.”

Whole Facts Light Interesting Evolution Meaningful Curious Biology Satisfying

Author:Theodosius Dobzhansky

“An accident, a random change, in any delicate mechanism can hardly be expected to improve it. Poking a stick into the machinery of one's watch or one's radio set will seldom make it work better.”

Watches Sticks Radio Accidents Expected Mechanism Delicate Machinery

Author:Theodosius Dobzhansky

“Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science of human betterment.”

Humans Ideas Sound Natural Core Artificial Replaced Selection Natural Selection Eugenics Betterment Applied Science

Author:Theodosius Dobzhansky

“There is no data that can be displayed in a pie chart, that cannot be displayed BETTER in some other type of chart.”

Author:John Tukey

“Be approximately right rather than exactly wrong.”

Book:The Collected Works of John W. Tukey: Philosophy and principles of data analysis, 1949-1964

Source: The Collected Works of John W. Tukey: Philosophy and principles of data analysis, 1949-1964

“I'm a little too belligerent. I cuss and swear at people. I yell at umpires and maybe I'm a little to tough at home sometimes. I don't sign as many autographs as I should and I haven't always been that good with writers.”

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Author:Thurman Munson