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Eugenics   /judʒˈɛnɪks/   Listen
Eugenics

noun
1.
The study of methods of improving genetic qualities by selective breeding (especially as applied to human mating).





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"Eugenics" Quotes from Famous Books



... practically believe in the doctrine of heredity; and as my body is frail and my brain morbidly active, I think my impulse towards a man strong in body and untroubled in mind a trustworthy one. You can understand that; it is a plain proposition in eugenics. But if I tell you that I have chosen this common pugilist because, after seeing half the culture of Europe, I despaired of finding a better man, you will only tell me again that I ...
— Cashel Byron's Profession • George Bernard Shaw
... set by the wisest and the best among us, and that standard is systematically inculcated in the young—then we shall find that a system of truly "Natural Selection" (a term that Wallace preferred to "Eugenics," which he utterly disliked) will come spontaneously into action which will tend steadily to eliminate the lower, the less developed, or in any way defective types of men, and will thus continuously raise the physical, moral, and intellectual ...
— Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences Vol 2 (of 2) • James Marchant


Words linked to "Eugenics" :   bioscience, eugenic, life science, dysgenics


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