Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes

1823–1913 Wales

Alfred Russel Wallace, OM, FRS (January 8 1823 – November 7 1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, and biologist. He independently proposed a theory of natural selection ("On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely From the Original Type") which prompted Charles Darwin to publish his own more developed and researched theory sooner than he had intended.

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Also known as: Wallace, Alfred Russel

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Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species.

On the Law which has Regulated the Introduction of New Species (1855)

The marvelous collection of forces which appear to control matter, if not actually to constitute it, are and must be mind products.

Arne Wyller in Planetary Mind (1995)

If I had to fix on two only as representing the perfection of the two classes, I should certainly choose the Durian and the Orange as the king and queen of fruits.

He [the naturalist] looks upon every species of animal and plant now living as the individual letters which go to make up one of the volumes of our earth's history; and, as a few lost letters may make a sentence unintelligible, so the extinction of the numerous forms of life which the progress of cultivation invariably entails will necessarily render obscure this invaluable record of the past.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alfred Russel Wallace (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.