"Why do some die and some live? The……" — Alfred Russel Wallace
"Why do some die and some live? The answer was clearly, that on the whole the best fitted live. From the effects of disease the most healthy escaped; from enemies, the strongest, swiftest, or the most cunning; from famine, the best hunters or those with the best digestion; and so on. Then it suddenly flashed upon me that this self-acting process would necessarily improve the race, because in every generation the inferior would inevitably be killed off and the superior would remain-that is, the fittest would survive."
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Alfred Russel Wallace
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26 Quotes by Alfred Russel Wallace
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I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.
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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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