Quotes by Alfred Russel Wallace

"[I]t is indisputably the mediocre, if not the low, both as regards morality and intelligence, who succeed in life and multiply the fastest."
— Alfred Russel Wallace
"{ Letter to his brother, 1861 } ... I remain an utter disbeliever in almost all that you consider the most sacred truths... But whether there be a God and whatever be His nature; whether we have an immortal soul or not, or whatever may be our state after death, I can have no fear of having to suffer for the study of nature and the search for truth, or believe that those will be better off in a future state who have lived in the belief of doctrines inculcated from childhood, and which are to them rather a matter of blind faith than intelligent conviction ."
— Alfred Russel Wallace
"Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly."
— Alfred Russel Wallace
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Alfred Russel Wallace (8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913) was an English naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist and illustrator. He independently conceived the theory of evolution ...