Emerging Quote by Erasmus Darwin

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

[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. [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 coral-insects build…

— 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, and kindled…

— 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 of short…

— Erasmus Darwin

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

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

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

“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 the thrusts…

— Erasmus Darwin