The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.George Bernard Shaw
“You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'”
Playwright · 1856 – 1950
Irish playwright and critic; author of Pygmalion; Nobel Prize in Literature 1925.
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