British - Scientist | January 8, 1823 - November 7, 1913
In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
Alfred Russel Wallace
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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 the localities in which they are found.
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Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.
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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.
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Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time.
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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.
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Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.
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I have since wandered among men of many races and many religions.
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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.
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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 individualised human minds through the agency of matter.
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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.
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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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