George Bernard Shaw

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

A man who has no office to go to – I don’t care who he is – is a trial of which you can have no conception.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

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

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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.