It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them. — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found. — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly. — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share
Why do some die and some live? The answer was clearly, that on the whole the best fitted live. From the effects of disease… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share
I think I have fairly heard and fairly weighed the evidence on both sides, and I remain an utter disbeliever in almost all that… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share
To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share
I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share
As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share
It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share
In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share
To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share
In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the most eminent living men… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share
In one of my latest conversations with Darwin he expressed himself very gloomily on the future of humanity, on the ground that in our… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share
If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share
There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share
Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share
“[I]t is indisputably the mediocre, if not the low, both as regards morality and intelligence, who succeed in life and multiply the fastest.” — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share
