Quote of George Bernard Shaw - Science never solves a problem without...

Biography - George Bernard Shaw:

Irish playwright critic and polemicis.
Born: 1856 - Died: 1950
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom

Quote

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.”
George Bernard Shaw

Quotes about science:

Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.”
François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
Isaac Asimov

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.”
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
Immanuel Kant

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.”
Paul Valéry

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A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice.”
Karl Popper - Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge

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Quotes for: problem:

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
Soren Kierkegaard

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
Pablo Picasso

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.”
Noam Chomsky

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”
Charles Darwin

Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein

problem

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.”
René Descartes

problem

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George Bernard Shaw also said...

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.”
George Bernard Shaw

All great truths begin as blasphemies.”
George Bernard Shaw

truth

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
George Bernard Shaw

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.”
George Bernard Shaw

change

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may be different.”
George Bernard Shaw - Man and Superman

others

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.”
George Bernard Shaw

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