Erasmus Darwin Quotes

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

  Erasmus Darwin

  Men, Fool, Experiments

  In a letter from Maria Edgeworth to Sophy Ruxton, 9 March 1792: F. V. Barry (ed.) 'Maria Edgeworth: Chosen Letters' (1931)

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

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  Retirement, Ends, Dangerous

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• 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!

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  Naturaleza, Ciencia, Derecho

  Erasmus Darwin (1800). “Phytologia; Or, The Philosophy of Agriculture and Gardening: With the Theory of Draining Morasses, and with an Improved Construction of the Drill Plough”, p.556

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• The great CREATOR of all things has infinitely diversified the works of his hands, but has at the same time stamped a certain similitude on the features of nature, that demonstrates to us, that the whole is one family of one parent.

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  Nature, Science, Hands

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

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  Cat, Purring Cats, Cat Love

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• Organic life beneath the shoreless waves
  Was born and rais’d in Ocean’s pearly caves
  First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass,
  Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass;
  These, as successive generations bloom,
  New powers acquire, and larger limbs assume;
  Whence countless groups of vegetation spring,
  And breathing realms of fin, and feet and wing.

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  Spring, Ocean, Moving

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

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  Life, Science, States

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

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  Science, Fool, Made

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• 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.

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  Feelings, Facts, Evolution

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• Otra cosa muy perjudicial para el niño es atar y cortar demasiado pronto el cordón del ombligo, que siempre debe dejarse hasta que el niño no sólo haya respirado repetidamente, sino hasta que cese toda pulsación en el cordón. De lo contrario, el niño es mucho más débil de lo que debería ser, quedando en la placenta una parte de la sangre que debería haber estado en el niño y, al mismo tiempo, la placenta no se colapsa tan naturalmente y se retira de los lados del útero, por lo que no se retira con tanta seguridad y certeza.

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  Children, Cutting, Blood

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• 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.

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  Brother, Hero, Eye

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• We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay, coal, marl, sand, and iron, which are incumbent on them, are MONUMENTS OF THE PAST FELICITY OF ORGANIZED NATURE!

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  Science, Past, Ideas

  Erasmus Darwin (1800). “Phytologia, or the philosophy of agriculture and gardening; with the theory of draining morasses and with an improved construction of the drill plough”, p.560

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• E canchis amnia.
  Everything from shells.

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  Shells, Evolution

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• Debido a la imperfección del lenguaje, la cría se denomina un nuevo animal, pero en realidad es una rama o elongación del progenitor, ya que una parte del embrión-animal es, o era, una parte del progenitor, y por lo tanto, en lenguaje estricto, no puede decirse que sea completamente nuevo en el momento de su producción, y por lo tanto puede conservar algunos de los hábitos del sistema de los padres. (1794)

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  Animal, Parent, Imperfection

  Erasmus Darwin (1794). “Zoonomia; Or, The Laws of Organic Life ...”, p.480

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

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  Science, Issues, Earth

  Erasmus Darwin (1791). “The Botanic Garden; a Poem, in Two Parts. Part I. Containing The Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants. With Philosophical Notes”, p.9

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• 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.

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  Pain, Loss, Mind

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• El opio es la única droga en la que se puede confiar; todas las fórmulas de las que se alardea sólo llevan tiempo, y como la enfermedad suele ser de corta duración o de poca cantidad, han ganado un crédito que no merecen.

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  Drug, Credit, Disease

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• The colours of insects and many smaller animals contribute to conceal them from the larger ones which prey upon them. Caterpillars which feed on leaves are generally green; and earth-worms the colour of the earth which they inhabit; butter-flies, which frequent flowers, are coloured like them; small birds which frequent hedges have greenish backs like the leaves, and light-coloured bellies like the sky, and are hence less visible to the hawk who passes under them or over them.

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  Nature, Flower, Science

  Erasmus Darwin (1807). “The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts: Part I. Containing The Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants”

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• La enfermedad hipocondríaca consiste en indigestión y flatulencia consecuente, con ansiedad o falta de sensación placentera.

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  Science, Anxiety, Disease

  Erasmus Darwin, Samuel Latham Mitchill (1818). “Zoonomia; Or The Laws of Organic Life”, p.112

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• 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.

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  Science, Animal, Ideas

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• 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.

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  Science, Parent, Quality

  Erasmus Darwin (1968). “The essential writings of Erasmus Darwin”

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• Lamento que las divinidades infernales, que visitan a la humanidad con enfermedades y, por tanto, están en guerra perpetua con los médicos, me hayan impedido ver hoy a todos vosotros, grandes hombres, en el Soho. ¡qué invenciones, qué ingenio, qué retórica, metafísica, mecánica y pirotécnica, estarán al vuelo, lanzadas como un volante de uno a otro de vuestra tropa de filósofos, mientras que yo, pobre de mí, yo solo, imprizon'd en una silla de posta, soy sacudido, y empujado, y golpeado, y magullado a lo largo del camino del Rey, para hacer la guerra a una viruela o una fiebre!

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  Kings, Sorry, War

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• There are some modern practitioners, who declaim against medical theory in general, not considering that to think is to theorize; and that no one can direct a method of cure to a person labouring under disease, without thinking, that is, without theorizing; and happy therefore is the patient, whose physician possesses the best theory.

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  Science, Thinking, Physicians

  Erasmus Darwin, Robert Waring Darwin (1794). “Zoonomia; or, The laws of organic life ...”, p.2

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• Las Reproducciones del Ens viviente
  De padres a hijos, desconociendo el sexo, comienzan...
  Desconociendo el sexo, la ostra preñada se hincha,
  Y los insectos de coral construyen sus conchas radiadas...
  Nacimiento tras nacimiento la línea inmutable corre,
  Y los padres viven transmitidos en sus hijos;
  Cada año que pasa contempla los tipos invariables,
  Los mismos modales y las mismas mentes.

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  Running, Sex, Father

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• De ahí que cuando una persona siente un gran dolor, cuya causa no puede eliminar, aprieta los dientes con firmeza o muerde alguna sustancia entre ellos con gran vehemencia, como otro modo de esfuerzo violento para producir un alivio temporal. Así tenemos el proverbio cuando no se puede obtener ayuda en el dolor, 'sonreír y aguantar'; y se dice que las torturas del infierno van acompañadas del 'crujir de dientes'. Describiendo una sugerencia del origen de la mueca en la forma actual de un proverbio, 'sonreír y aguantar'.

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  Pain, Together, Vehemence

  Erasmus Darwin (1818). “Zoonomia”, p.330

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