H. G. Wells

“We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”

“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.”

“Human history is in essence a history of ideas.”

“Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”

“I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.”

“Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think that God had exempted [us]...”

“The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.”

“My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of astronomy. There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense...”

“There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace a...”

“I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world”

“If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.”

“No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.”

“Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.”

“For after the Battle comes quiet.”

“I had made myself the most complicated and the most hopeless trap that ever a man devised.”

“But I have believed always and taught always that what God demands from man is his utmost effort to cooperate and understand. I have taught the imagination, first and most; I have made knowl...”

“Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.”

“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”

“Mr. Polly went into the National School at six and he left the private school at fourteen, and by that time his mind was in much the same state that you would be in, dear reader, if you were...”

“I tell you, stupidity, self-protective stupidity, is the fundamental sin. No man alive has a right to contentment. No man alive has a right to mental rest. No man has any right to be as stup...”