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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.
— Alfred Russel Wallace
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I have since wandered among men of many races and many religions.
— Alfred Russel Wallace
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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 these matters.
— Alfred Russel Wallace
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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.
— Alfred Russel Wallace
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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 point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.
— Alfred Russel Wallace
Tags: point, animals, organization, history
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
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