Quote: The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by. [Herbert George Wells]
Quote: Cynicism is humor in ill health. [Herbert George Wells]
Quote: It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening. [Herbert George Wells]
Quote: He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly. [Herbert George Wells]
Quote: Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. [Herbert George Wells]
Quote: Human history in essence is the history of ideas. [Herbert George Wells]
Quote: The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships. [Herbert George Wells]
Quote: History is a race between education and catastrophe. [Herbert George Wells]
Quote: Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him. [Herbert George Wells]
Quote: Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning. [Herbert George Wells]
Quote: The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other. [Herbert George Wells]
Quote: I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own. [Herbert George Wells]
Quote: Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. [Herbert George Wells]
Quote: The crisis of yesterday is the joke of tomorrow. [Herbert George Wells]
Quote: Fools make researches and wise men exploit them. [Herbert George Wells]
Quote: In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it. [Herbert George Wells]
Quote: There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection. [Herbert George Wells]
Quote: Our true nationality is mankind. [Herbert George Wells]
Quote: The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought. [Herbert George Wells]
Quote: Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia. [Herbert George Wells]
Quote: Advertising is legalized lying. [Herbert George Wells]
Quote: One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good. [Herbert George Wells]
Quote: Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions. [Herbert George Wells]
Quote: A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. [Herbert George Wells]
Quote: Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. [Herbert George Wells]