At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians prophesied, the extermination of the human race by smallpox; on the contrary more people are now killed by vaccination than by smallpox.
George Bernard ShawConsciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.
George Bernard ShawNo use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.
George Bernard ShawEducation can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young
George Bernard ShawWe are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality.
George Bernard Shaw