Life is a forced state! I am surprized that we live, rather than that our friends die. — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
The hypochondriac disease consists in indigestion and consequent flatulency, with anxiety or want of pleasurable sensation. — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
“The mass starts into a million suns; Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst, And second planets issue from the first.… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay,… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
The mass starts into a million suns; Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst, And second planets issue from the first. — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
The great CREATOR of all things has infinitely diversified the works of his hands, but has at the same time stamped a… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
“Birth after birth the line unchanging runs, And fathers live transmitted in their sons; Each passing year beholds the unvarying kinds, The… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
The colours of insects and many smaller animals contribute to conceal them from the larger ones which prey upon them. Caterpillars which… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
From the sexual, or amatorial, generation of plants new varieties, or improvements, are frequently obtained; as many of the young plants from… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
There are some modern practitioners, who declaim against medical theory in general, not considering that to think is to theorize; and that… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
By firm immutable immortal laws Impress'd on Nature by the GREAT FIRST CAUSE, Say, MUSE! how rose from elemental strife Organic forms,… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
“Each pregnant Oak ten thousand acorns forms Profusely scatter'd by autumnal storms; Ten thousand seeds each pregnant poppy sheds Profusely scatter'd from… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
“ORGANIC LIFE beneath the shoreless waves Was born and nurs'd in Ocean's pearly caves; First, forms minute, unseen by spheric glass, Move… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
So erst the Sage [Pythagoras] with scientific truth In Grecian temples taught the attentive youth; With ceaseless change how restless atoms pass… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame, And… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share
Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' and which would seem… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share
[Retirement] is a dangerous experiment, and generally ends in either drunkenness or hypochrondriacism. — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share
“The mass starts into a million suns; Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst, And second planets issue from the first. [The first… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share
The Reproductions of the living Ens From sires to sons, unknown to sex, commence... Unknown to sex the pregnant oyster swells, And coral-insects build… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share
The mass starts into a million suns; Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst, And second planets issue from the first. — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share
By firm immutable immortal laws Impress'd on Nature by the GREAT FIRST CAUSE, Say, MUSE! how rose from elemental strife Organic forms, and kindled… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share
Opium is the only drug to' be rely'd on-all the boasted nostrums only take up time, and as the disease [is] often of short… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share
The great CREATOR of all things has infinitely diversified the works of his hands, but has at the same time stamped a certain similitude… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share
Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which become forever… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share
In fact the a priori reasoning is so entirely satisfactory to me that if the facts won't fit in, why so much the worse… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share
“It is often hazardous to marry an heiress, as she is not unfrequently the last of a diseased family.” — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share
So the horns of the stag are sharp to offend his adversary, but are branched for the purpose of parrying or receiving the thrusts… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share
No radiant pearl which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's ears, Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn,… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share
![“The mass starts into a million suns; Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst, And second planets issue from the first. [The first concept of a 'big bang' theory of the universe.]” quote by Erasmus Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/cb4/erasmus-darwin-17186_big-bang_the-mass-starts-into-a-million-suns-eart_235851.jpg)
![“So erst the Sage [Pythagoras] with scientific truth In Grecian temples taught the attentive youth; With ceaseless change how restless atoms pass From life to life, a transmigrating mass; How the same organs, which to-day compose The poisonous henbane, or the fragrant rose, May with to-morrow's sun…” quote by Erasmus Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/385/erasmus-darwin-17186_atoms_so-erst-the-sage-pythagoras-with-scienti_3173964.jpg)
