George Bernard Shaw

I have to live for others and not for myself: that’s middle-class morality.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

I don’t want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

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

Science is but an image of the truth.

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.

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!

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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!