George Bernard Shaw

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.

Well, dearie, men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. But you can’t blame them for that, can you?

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

It’s really cold outside, they are calling it a major freeze, weeks ahead of normal. Man, we could use a big fat dose of global warming!

Science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance.

The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.

Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories – those that don’t work, those that break down and those that get lost.

A physicist is an atom’s way of knowing about atoms.

Science is but an image of the truth.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Science is always wrong, it never solves a problem without creating ten more.

If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold, warm, whether it is really and truly composed of H-2-O, or even mineral water, or sake. Meditation is Drinking it!

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour, is to expect a peculiar privilege, a power denied to the rest of mankind; but to suppose that the maze is inscrutable to diligence, or the heights inaccessible to perseverance, is to submit tamely to the tyranny of fancy, and enchain the mind in voluntary shackles.

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.

Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.