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

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.

The mass starts into a million suns;Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst,And second planets issue from the first.[The first concept of a ‘big bang’ theory of the universe.]

Birth after birth the line unchanging runs,And fathers live transmitted in their sons;Each passing year beholds the unvarying kinds,The same their manners, and the same their minds:Till, as erelong successive buds decay,And insect-shoals successive pass...

This compassion, or sympathy with the pains of others, ought also to extend to the brute creation, as far as our necessities will admit; for we cannot exist long without the destruction of other animal...

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...

ORGANIC LIFE beneath the shoreless wavesWas born and nurs’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...

Each pregnant Oak ten thousand acorns formsProfusely scatter’d by autumnal storms;Ten thousand seeds each pregnant poppy shedsProfusely scatter’d from its waving heads;The countless Aphides, prolific tribe,With greedy trunks the honey’d sap imbibe;Swarm on each leaf...

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...

And hail their queen, fair regent of the night.