Alfred Russel Wallace

“Why do some die and some live? And the answer was clearly, that on the whole the best fitted live.”

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

“The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I believe that they are incapable of any great effort for the good of humanity.”

“Man is the only creature that has a god of his own and prays to it.”

“I have come to the general conclusion that none of our faculties are in their normal state and that we are progressing towards a higher state of development, mentally and morally.”

“The object and use of the working classes is to make fortunes for employers.”

“We live in a zoological garden.”

“The great lesson of the XXth Century is that Nature has a secret, which is that it is an open book.”

“The price of the necessaries of life is the cost of production, which is, mainly, the wages of labor.”

“There are, and always have been, two systems of justice in the world.”

“To the man of science, who accepts in its entirety the theory of evolution, this globe is a world of the most marvellous complexity.”

“It is therefore to the interest of all of us that every person should be educated, and that all should be placed in the best conditions for the development of their faculties.”