My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.
George Bernard ShawWhenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.
George Bernard ShawThe thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
George Bernard ShawWhat is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die.
George Bernard ShawIn 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