"What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?"

Alfred Russel Wallace, British Scientist

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"What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?"

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"As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways."

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"To 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."

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