49 Quotes by Alfred Russel Wallace

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

[I]t is indisputably the mediocre, if not the low, both as regards morality and intelligence, who succeed in life and multiply the fastest.

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.

Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time

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.

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.

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

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

What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters