Harriet Martineau Quotes About Universe

Quotes about: Universe

• As the astronomer rejoices in new knowledge which compels him to give up the dignity of our globe as the centre, the pride, and even the final cause of the universe, so do those who have escaped from the Christian mythology enjoy their release from the superstition which fails to make them happy, fails to make them good, fails to make them wise, and has become as great an obstacle in the way of progress as the prior mythologies which it took the place of two thousand years ago.

  Harriet Martineau

  Wise, Christian, Giving Up

  Harriet Martineau (1877). “Harriet Martineau's autobiography, with memorials by M.W. Chapman”, p.356

• I want to be a free rover on the breezy common of the universe.

  Harriet Martineau

  Freedom, Want, Common

• There is no theory of a God, of an author of Nature, of an origin of the Universe, which is not utterly repugnant to my faculties. . .

  Harriet Martineau

  Theory, Faculty, Universe

  Henry George Atkinson, Harriet Martineau (1851). “Letters on the Laws of Man's Nature and Development: By Henry George Atkinson ... and Harriet Martineau ...”, p.222

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