Erasmus Darwin

Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of…

— Erasmus Darwin

Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' and which…

— Erasmus Darwin

[Retirement] is a dangerous experiment, and generally ends in either drunkenness or hypochrondriacism.

— Erasmus Darwin

“The mass starts into a million suns; Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst, And second planets issue from the first.…

— Erasmus Darwin

The Reproductions of the living Ens From sires to sons, unknown to sex, commence... Unknown to sex the pregnant oyster swells, And…

— Erasmus Darwin

The mass starts into a million suns; Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst, And second planets issue from the first.

— Erasmus Darwin

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

Opium is the only drug to' be rely'd on-all the boasted nostrums only take up time, and as the disease [is] often…

— Erasmus Darwin

The great CREATOR of all things has infinitely diversified the works of his hands, but has at the same time stamped a…

— Erasmus Darwin

Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which…

— Erasmus Darwin

In fact the a priori reasoning is so entirely satisfactory to me that if the facts won't fit in, why so much…

— Erasmus Darwin

“It is often hazardous to marry an heiress, as she is not unfrequently the last of a diseased family.”

— Erasmus Darwin

So the horns of the stag are sharp to offend his adversary, but are branched for the purpose of parrying or receiving…

— Erasmus Darwin

No radiant pearl which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's ears, Not the bright stars which Night's blue…

— Erasmus Darwin

A fool, Mr, Edgeworth, is one who has never made an experiment.

— Erasmus Darwin

We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay,…

— Erasmus Darwin

Life is a forced state! I am surprized that we live, rather than that our friends die.

— Erasmus Darwin

Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear…

— Erasmus Darwin

“This compassion, or sympathy with the pains of others, ought also to extend to the brute creation, as far as our necessities…

— Erasmus Darwin

The colours of insects and many smaller animals contribute to conceal them from the larger ones which prey upon them. Caterpillars which…

— Erasmus Darwin

“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

From the sexual, or amatorial, generation of plants new varieties, or improvements, are frequently obtained; as many of the young plants from…

— Erasmus Darwin

There are some modern practitioners, who declaim against medical theory in general, not considering that to think is to theorize; and that…

— Erasmus Darwin

Hence when a person is in great pain, the cause of which he cannot remove, he sets his teeth firmly together, or…

— Erasmus Darwin

In fact, Darwin's own grandfather anticipated the central tenet of Lamarckism by some seven years: "All animals undergo perpetual transformations; which are…

— Erasmus Darwin