George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw, known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic and polemicist whose influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman, Pygmalionand Saint Joan. With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth26 July 1856
CityDublin, Ireland
CountryIreland
Science is always wrong, it never solves a problem without creating ten more.
Science is always simple and profound. It is only half truths that are dangerous.
[...] any fool can make a discovery. Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger Bacon ever discovered in his laboratory.
Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.
The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.
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 myriad.
Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft
Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.
Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.
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 to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.
Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity.