In fact, Darwin's own grandfather anticipated the central tenet of Lamarckism by some seven years: All animals undergo perpetual transformations which are in part produced by their own exertions... and many of these acquired forms or propensities are transmitted to their posterity.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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!

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

E canchis amnia. Everything from shells.

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.

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

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!