And it wasn’t true for Newton and Copernicus. So what. Why does it matter what Wallace knew or didn’t know? We live in 2019 where our scientific knowledge of the universe is much advanced and advancing faster and faster. We now live in a society where information about anything and everything is at our fingertips. Think about this: An average physics student know more information about the Big Bang/relativity/QM at her fingertips than Einstein did. And a high school biology textbook has more information on evolution than Darwin could even image.