Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.

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.

You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.

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

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.

There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.

You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery.

To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

A statesman who confines himself to popular legislation - or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popular plays - is like a blind man's dog who goes wherever the blind man pulls him, on the ground that both of them want to go to the same place.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

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