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Alfred Russel Wallace has 35 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the most eminent…
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In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and…
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It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed…
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Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly. To expect the world…
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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 to which…
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There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of…
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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 soul, both…
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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 duty in…
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But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must…
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Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and…
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The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious which is best fitted to compensate the…
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More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and…
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Therein lies the social significance of art: It is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms…
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I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see…
— Simon Newcomb
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In time of peril, like the needle to the loadstone, obedience, irrespective of rank, generally flies to him who is best fitted…
— Herman Melville
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[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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Why do some die and some live? The answer was clearly, that on the whole the best fitted live. From the effects…
— Alfred Russel Wallace
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The government's objective, broadly expressed, is that all persons, whatever their level of ability, whether they live in town or country, have…
— Peter Fraser
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