The weakness of the man who, when his theory works out into a flagrant contradiction of the facts, concludes "so much the worse for the facts: let them be altered," instead of "so much the worse for my theory."


The Works of Bernard Shaw, Volume 19 (Constable, 1930), p. 339

George Bernard Shaw Quotes

The weakness of the man who, when his theory works out into a flagrant contradiction of the facts, concludes so much the worse for the facts: let...

The weakness of the man who, when his theory works out into a flagrant contradiction of the facts, concludes so much the worse for the facts: let...

The weakness of the man who, when his theory works out into a flagrant contradiction of the facts, concludes so much the worse for the facts: let...

The weakness of the man who, when his theory works out into a flagrant contradiction of the facts, concludes so much the worse for the facts: let...