"What birds can have their bills more peculiarly……" — Alfred Russel Wallace
"What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?"
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Alfred Russel Wallace
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26 Quotes by Alfred Russel Wallace
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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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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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