Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  Years, Tuesday, Mind

  Sir James Marchant, Alfred Russel Wallace (1916). “Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences (Complete)”, p.80, Library of Alexandria

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• What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  Bird, Bills, Herons

  Alfred Russel Wallace (2016). “Travels on the Amazon”, p.62, Library of Alexandria

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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

  Marriage, Law, Public Opinion

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• Mars, therefore, is not only uninhabited by intelligent beings such as Mr. Lowell postulates, but is absolutely uninhabitable.

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  Intelligent, Mars

  Alfred Russel Wallace (1907). “Is Mars Habitable? A Critical Examination of Professor Percival Lowell's Book "Mars and its Canals," with an Alternative Explanation”, p.81, Library of Alexandria

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