Clarence Darrow Quotes About Universe

Quotes about: Universe

• I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.

  Clarence Darrow

  Atheist, Men, Religion

  Emanuel Haldeman-Julius' eulogy for Clarence Darrow, 1938.

• Every one knows that the heavenly bodies move in certain paths in relation to each other with seeming consistency and regularity which we call [physical] law. ... No one attributes freewill or motive to the material world. Is the conduct of man or the other animals any more subject to whim or choice than the action of the planets? ... We know that man's every act is induced by motives that led or urged him here or there; that the sequence of cause and effect runs through the whole universe, and is nowhere more compelling than with man.

  Clarence Darrow

  Running, Moving, Men

• I am simply an agnostic. I haven't yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don't know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.

  Clarence Darrow

  Running, Opportunity, Religion

  Clarence Darrow, S. T. Joshi (2005). “Closing Arguments: Clarence Darrow on Religion, Law, and Society”, p.66, Ohio University Press

• To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder
  and doubt and guess.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Years, Doubt

  Clarence Darrow (1995). “Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays”

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