Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. The Necessity of Atheism. C. and W. Phillips, 1811, p. 9.
The layman assumes that for every action there must be a reaction, and every action in turn most have had a previous causing action. This is classic Newtonian Physics and was believed by almost all scientists until the latter part of the 20th century when Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, the Big Bang and other important scientific ideas permeated beyond just a few elite scientists. Today, there are a number of demonstrations of how the universe came to be where there is no first cause or prime mover. See Hawking’s quote relating to this point—{633342}.
Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets. American literary critic Harold Bloom describes him as "a superb craftsman, a lyric poet without rival, and surely one of the most advanced sceptical intellects ever to write a poem." A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition of his achievements in poetry grew steadily following his death and he became an important influence on subsequent generations of poets including Browning, Swinburne, Hardy and Yeats.
