Francis Galton Quotes:
Ocupation: Polymath
Life: February 16, 1822 - January 17, 1911
Birthday: February 16
Death: January 17
Some people hate the very name of statistics, but I find them full of beauty and interest. Whenever they are not brutalized, but delicately handled by the higher methods, and are warily interpreted, their power of dealing with complicated phenomena is extraordinary. They are the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those who pursue the Science of Man.
source: Natural Inheritance Normal Variability (pp. 62-3)
topic: Hate, Cutting, Men, Thickets
