Quotes from George Bernard Shaw
The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.
- George Bernard Shaw
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.
- George Bernard Shaw
Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.
- George Bernard Shaw
Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.
- George Bernard Shaw
Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft
- George Bernard Shaw
Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.
- George Bernard Shaw
Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
- George Bernard Shaw
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.
- George Bernard Shaw
To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.
- George Bernard Shaw
Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.
- George Bernard Shaw
In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization.
- George Bernard Shaw