“[I]t is indisputably the mediocre, if not the low, both as regards morality and intelligence, who succeed in life and multiply the fastest.”
Quotes by 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 .”
“Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.”
Alfred Russel WallaceAlfred Russel Wallace was an influential English naturalist and explorer, best known for independently formulating the theory of evolution through natural selection. His groundbreaking 1858 paper on t...