We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system - with all these exalted powers - Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

There should be open competition for all men; and the most able should not be prevented by laws or customs from succeeding best and rearing the largest number …

I have attempted to write the following account of myself, as if I were a dead man in another world looking back at my own life. Nor have I found this difficul…

When the principles of breeding and of inheritance are better understood, we shall not hear ignorant members of our legislature rejecting with scorn a plan for…

The role the unfit play in human affairs should make us pause whenever we are prompted to see man as a mere animal and not a being of an order apart.

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only.

Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have a chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has …