"In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs."
— Science

January 1, 1970

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Sir Francis Darwin, "Francis Galton", the first Galton Lecture, delivered before the Eugenics Education Society, 16 February 1914; reprinted, with some changes, from the Eugenics Review of April 1914, in Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History (1917), p. 24