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.


The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929 (ed. Viking Adult, 1993)

George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...