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Quotes by H. G. Wells

  • Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.
  • The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
  • I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever-increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations.
  • Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
  • Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
  • 'We were making the future,' he said, and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is'.
  • Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
  • No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
  • After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
  • Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
  • Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.
  • We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.