Clarence Darrow Quotes:
Ocupation: Lawyer
Life: April 18, 1857 - March 13, 1938
Birthday: April 18
Death: March 13
Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man.
source: Clarence Darrow's remarks at a debate with religious leaders in Kansas City, as quoted in a Emanuel Haldeman-Julius' eulogy for Clarence Darrow, 1938.
topic: Believe, Men, Garden, Laughing Gas, Tree Of Knowledge
