It is difficult to understand why statisticians commonly limit their inquiries to Averages, and do not revel in … - Francis Galton

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It was fine," I said stiffly. "We played Mouse Trap. " "Is that what they're calling it these days?" she asked, throwing me a terrible grin. "I have to go give Rachel a quick bath. Feel free to make yourself some cocoa or whatever you like!" She stopped short of adding ". . . future child-bride of my only son.

Francis Galton

It is difficult to understand why statisticians commonly limit their inquiries to Averages, and do not revel in more comprehensive views. Their souls seem as dull to the charm of variety as that of the native of one of our flat English counties, whose retrospect of Switzerland was that, if its mountains could be thrown into its lakes, two nuisances would be got rid of at once.

Averages, Lakes, Revel, Two, Understand, Views

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We shall therefore take an appropriately correct view of the origin of our life, if we consider our own embryos to have sprung immediately from those embryos whence our parents were developed, and these from the embryos of their parents, and so on for ever. We should in this way look on the nature of mankind, and perhaps on that of the whole animated creation, as one Continuous System, ever pushing out new branches in all directions, that variously interlace, and that bud into separate lives at every point of interlacement.

Creation, Parent, Separate, Variously, Views, Way

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.

Good, Individual, Individuals, Life Is, Republic, Unconscious

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.

Adhesion, Animal, Cat, Comforts, House

The conditions that direct the order of. . . the living world. . . are marked by their persistence in improving the birthright of successive generations.

Birthright, Generations, Living, Order, Persistence

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.

Becomes, Kindness, Lies, Lying, Nature, Quickly