George Bernard Shaw Quotes
You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'
Shaw, George Bernard. Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch. Brentano's, 1921, p. 7.
This was one of Robert Kennedy’s favorite quotes. Though his version is unique, the original idea comes from the book, Back to Methuselah. See George Bernard Shaw. {642128} The great American Scientist, J. Robert Oppenheimer, had expressed a variant of the idea in {639985} .
Many people would say the same about the present period.
The Scientific Project that developed the Atomic Bomb. See Robert F. Kennedy {610136} for a later variant of this quotation.
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George Bernard Shaw, known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1912) and Saint Joan (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
