Erasmus Darwin Quotes

Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the field of air.

To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense.

A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.

The hypochondriac disease consists in indigestion and consequent flatulency, with anxiety or want of pleasurable sensation.

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 soars and shines, another and the same.

I much condole with you on your late loss... pains and diseases of the mind are only cured by Forgetfulness;--Reason but skins the wound, which is perpetually liable to fester again.

E canchis amnia. Everything from shells.

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

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

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

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

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.