They Had at Least the Evidence of Their Senses

In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat,
for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we
believe it to be round, not because as many as one per cent
of us could give the physical reasons for so quaint a belief,
but because modern science has convinced us that nothing
that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical,
improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless,
or outrageous is scientific.

George Bernard Shaw