Shaw Direct Launched

Famous quotes containing the words shaw, direct and/or launched:

    There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    A fact is a proposition of which the verification by an appeal to the primary sources of our knowledge or to experience is direct and simple. A theory, on the other hand, if true, has all the characteristics of a fact except that its verification is possible only by indirect, remote, and difficult means.
    Chauncey Wright (1830–1875)

    It was a very primitive kind of harbor, where boats were drawn up amid the stumps,—such a one, methought, as the Argo might have been launched in.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)