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

— Francis Galton

Source: Memories of My Life (1908), Chapter V Cambridge

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British polymath: geographer, statistician, pioneer in euge… 1822–1911

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