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

— Alfred Russel Wallace Arne Wyller in Planetary Mind (1995)

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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)

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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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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