Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes

Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race

I 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.

I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.

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.

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.

There is a tendency in nature to the continued progression of certain classes of varieties further and further from the original type.

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.

To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity