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Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes
As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways. - Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes
But I think that a little consideration will show you that belief is quite independent of our will, and our common expressions show it. - Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes
But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life. - Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes
Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race. - Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes
I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain. - Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes
I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions. - Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes
I have since wandered among men of many races and many religions. - Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes
I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong. - Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes
I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergymans family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind. - Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes
I then walk off into the swamp along the path of logs and tree-trunks, picking my way cautiously, now glancing right and left on the foliage, and then surveying carefully the surface of the smooth round log I am walking on. - Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes
If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations. - Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes
In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found. - Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes
In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death. - Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes
It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.. - Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes
Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time. - Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes
Nature seems to have taken every precaution that these, her choicest treasures, may not lose value by being too easily obtained. - Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes
On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associated with a spiritual body or soul, both of which are developed in and by means of a material organism. - Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes
The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable. - Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes
There is a tendency in nature to the continued progression of certain classes of varieties further and further from the original type. - Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes
There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter. - Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes
To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur. - Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes
To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception. - Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes
To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity. - Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes
Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly. - Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes
What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron? - Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes
What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters. - Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes
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