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Science Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong; it is…
- Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.
- Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.
- Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there.…
- To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable…
- You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the…
- Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.
- The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.
- Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.
- [...] any fool can make a discovery. Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger Bacon ever discovered…
- Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
- A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
- Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
- All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
- In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it…
- Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.
More Science Quotes
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle
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- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. — Mary Kay Ash
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. — Isaac Asimov
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov