George Bernard Shaw

The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it, than you do to consume wealth without producing it.

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

The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

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

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

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.

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

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 facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.

Science is but an image of the truth.

If I could snap my fingers and do one thing in science, I would get more funding for basic science. But the level of funding that needs to be done is not on the order of millions, like the cost of the Breakthrough Prizes. It’s billions to tens of billions.

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!

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

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.

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