The mass starts into a million suns; Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst, And second planets issue from the first. Erasmus Darwin More Quotes by Erasmus Darwin More Quotes From 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 duration, or of small quantity, they have gain'd credit which they do not deserve. Erasmus Darwin creditdrugdisease To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense. Erasmus Darwin cat-lovepurring-catscat A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life. Erasmus Darwin experimentsfoolmen [Retirement] is a dangerous experiment, and generally ends in either drunkenness or hypochrondriacism. Erasmus Darwin dangerousendsretirement Another thing very injurious to the child is the tying and cutting of the navel string too soon, which should always be left till the child has not only repeatedly breathed but till all pulsation in the cord ceases. As otherwise the child is much weaker than it ought to be, a part of the blood being left in the placenta which ought to have been in the child and at the same time the placenta does not so naturally collapse, and withdraw itself from the sides of the uterus, and is not therefore removed with so much safety and certainty. Erasmus Darwin cuttingchildrenblood Owing to the imperfection of language the offspring is termed a new animal, but it is in truth a branch or elongation of the parent; since a part of the embryon-animal is, or was, a part of the parent; and therefore in strict language it cannot be said to be entirely new at the time of its production; and therefore it may retain some of the habits of the parent-system. (1794) Erasmus Darwin imperfectionparentanimal 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 new forms compile, Frown in the Hero, in the Beauty smile. Whence drew the enlighten'd Sage the moral plan, That man should ever be the friend of man; Should eye with tenderness all living forms, His brother-emmets, and his sister-worms. Erasmus Darwin eyebrotherhero Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' and which would seem to be one great slaughter-house, one universal scene of rapacity and injustice! Erasmus Darwin naturelawscience 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 for the facts is my feeling. Erasmus Darwin evolutionfeelingsfacts Life is a forced state! I am surprized that we live, rather than that our friends die. Erasmus Darwin stateslifescience I am sorry the infernal Divinities, who visit mankind with diseases, and are therefore at perpetual war with Doctors, should have prevented my seeing all you great Men at Soho to-day-Lord! what inventions, what wit, what rhetoric, metaphysical, mechanical and pyrotecnical, will be on the wing, bandy'd like a shuttlecock from one to another of your troop of philosophers! while poor I, I by myself I, imprizon'd in a post chaise, am joggled, and jostled, and bump'd, and bruised along the King's high road, to make war upon a pox or a fever! Erasmus Darwin kingssorrywar Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which become forever indissoluble, continuing after death in a future state of existence ... I would apply this ingenious idea to the generation, or production of the embryon, or new animal, which partakes so much of the form and propensities of the parent. Erasmus Darwin animalscienceideas The Reproductions of the living Ens Erasmus Darwin runningfathersex A fool, Mr, Edgeworth, is one who has never made an experiment. Erasmus Darwin foolmadescience E canchis amnia. Erasmus Darwin shellsevolution Hence when a person is in great pain, the cause of which he cannot remove, he sets his teeth firmly together, or bites some substance between them with great vehemence, as another mode of violent exertion to produce a temporary relief. Thus we have the proverb where no help can be has in pain, 'to grin and abide;' and the tortures of hell are said to be attended with 'gnashing of teeth.'Describing a suggestion of the origin of the grin in the present form of a proverb, 'to grin and bear it.' Erasmus Darwin vehemencepaintogether So the horns of the stag are sharp to offend his adversary, but are branched for the purpose of parrying or receiving the thrusts of horns similar to his own, and have therefore been formed for the purpose of combating other stags for the exclusive possession of the females; who are observed, like the ladies in the times of chivalry, to attend to the car of the victor. The final cause of this contest amongst the males seems to be, that the strongest and most active animal should propagate the species, which should thence become improved. Erasmus Darwin carsurvivalanimal Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Erasmus Darwin oceanspringmoving No radiant pearl which crested Fortune wears, Erasmus Darwin starsbeautynight From the sexual, or amatorial, generation of plants new varieties, or improvements, are frequently obtained; as many of the young plants from seeds are dissimilar to the parent, and some of them superior to the parent in the qualities we wish to possess... Sexual reproduction is the chef d'oeuvre, the master-piece of nature. Erasmus Darwin qualityparentscience
