Alfred Russel Wallace's Profile
Brief about Alfred Russel Wallace: By info that we know Alfred Russel Wallace was born at 1970-01-01. And also Alfred Russel Wallace is British Scientist.
Some Alfred Russel Wallace's quotes. Goto "Alfred Russel Wallace's quotation" section for more.In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
Tags: Death, Life, SolitudeI spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's 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.
Tags: Best, Family, MindIf 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.
Tags: Done, Future, WealthCivilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.
Tags: Opinion, Race, ReligionI hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong.
Tags: Evil, Great, PoliticalTo 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.
Tags: Expect, Old, TruthTo 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.
Tags: Changes, Mind, WordsTruth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.
Tags: Born, Fresh, TruthWhat birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?
Tags: Bills, Birds, FormedWhat we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.
Tags: Marriage, Opinion, SocietyAs 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.
Tags: Cannot, Might, SaidBut 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.
Tags: Beginning, Beyond, LifeI 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.
Tags: Here, Opinion, SuccessIn 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.
Tags: Food, Found, HistoryRelated topics
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