"Modification of form is admitted to be a…" — Alfred Russel Wallace
"Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time"
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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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It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as…
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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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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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It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public…
— Charles Babbage
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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for…
— Charles Babbage
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Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were…
— Lionel Blue
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It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can…
— Nicolas Chamfort
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You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for…
— C.S. Lewis
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Sixty percent of our immigrants are admitted merely because they have relatives here. Many of these people are not immediate…
— Ronald Reagan
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and…
— C.S. Lewis
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Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question.
— Johannes Kepler
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You're not supposed to be admitted to America if you're likely to be a charge on the public - if…
— Jeff Sessions
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I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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What you see is from outside yourself, and may come, or not, but is beyond your control. But your fear…
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
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