"It has been generally the custom of writers……" — Alfred Russel Wallace
"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."
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26 Quotes by Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace has 26 quotes on this site.
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In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the…
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In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their…
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Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly. To expect…
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I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.
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To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words…
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There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the…
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What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?
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Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race
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On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associated with a spiritual body or…
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Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time
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What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual…
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To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity
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