Death Quote by Alfred Russel Wallace

Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.

— 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…

— Alfred Russel Wallace

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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