“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
[...] any fool can make a discovery. Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Extermination must be put on a scientific basis if it is ever to be carried out humanely and apologetically as well as… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses:… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State). — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image