Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Francis Galton
Born: February 16, 1822
Died: January 17, 1911 (aged 88)
Bio: Sir Francis Galton was an English Victorian statistician, progressive, polymath, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist and psychometrician.
Known for:
- Natural Inheritance (1889)
- English men of science (1874)
- Finger Prints (1892)
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