Erasmus Darwin

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

“Dullness is a great preservative from lavishness.”

“Would it be too bold to imagine, that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament...”

“Organic life beneath the shoreless waves/ Was born and nurs'd in ocean's pearly caves.”

“The world has been generated rather than created.”

“He who allows oppression shares the crime.”

“E'en round the pole the flames of love aspire, / And icy bosoms feel the secret fire.”

“That 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.”