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George Bernard Shaw Quotes about Science

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Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.

Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.

George Bernard Shaw

Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.317, e-artnow

Activity is the only road to knowledge.

George Bernard Shaw

Wise, Knowledge, Science

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5797, e-artnow

In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.

George Bernard Shaw

Believe, Science, Giving

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

George Bernard Shaw

Death, Science, Men

Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Fame"

We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong; it is the very artifice of men. Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

George Bernard Shaw

Science, Men, Humanity

Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms”, p.33, Courier Corporation

The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

George Bernard Shaw

Education, Science, Men

George Bernard Shaw (2010). “Back to Methuselah”, p.11, The Floating Press

Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

George Bernard Shaw

Science, Simple, Profound

George Bernard Shaw (2011). “The Doctor's Dilemma”, p.30, The Floating Press

Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

George Bernard Shaw

Sarcastic, Science, Creating

"Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms".

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

George Bernard Shaw

Science, Imagination, Goal

1906 The Doctor's Dilemma, preface,'The Latest Theories'.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

George Bernard Shaw

Sarcastic, Food, Science

For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a standard scientific treatise, and that the only additions to it were Galileo'a demonstration of Leonardo da Vinci's simple remark that the earth is a moon of the sun, Sir Humphrey Davy's invention of the safety lamp, the discovery of electricity, the application of steam to industrial purposes, and the penny post.

George Bernard Shaw

Book, Dark, Science

Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there. In the polytechnic they teach you to be an engineer or such like. See?

George Bernard Shaw

Nice, Teaching, Science

Man and Superman (1903) act 2

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

George Bernard Shaw

Science, Trying, Invention

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.4494, e-artnow

[...] any fool can make a discovery. Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger Bacon ever discovered in his laboratory.

George Bernard Shaw

Baby, Science, Technology

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3937, e-artnow

To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad.

George Bernard Shaw

Mean, Science, Bushmen

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.311, e-artnow

You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can produce a wrong answer.

George Bernard Shaw

Science, Numbers, Giving

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