In one of my latest conversations with Darwin he expressed himself very gloomily on the future of humanity, on the ground that in our modern civilization natural selection had no play, and the fittest did not survive. Those who succeed in the race for wealth are by no means the best or the most intelligent, and it is notorious that our population is more largely renewed in each generation from the lower than from the middle and upper classes.
Alfred Russel WallaceIf this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.
Alfred Russel WallaceWhat birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?
Alfred Russel WallaceTo say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception
Alfred Russel Wallace