Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation. (George Bernard Shaw)

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

George Bernard Shaw

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