649 Quotes by H. G. Wells

In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.

I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.

Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this Earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars.

I doubt if these two fine, active minds [President and Mrs. Roosevelt] have ever inquiried how it is they know what they know and think as they do. Nor have they ever thought of what they might have been if they had grown up in an entirely different culture. They have the disposition of all politicians world over to deal only with made opinion. They have never inquired how it is that opinion is made.

Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.

In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but who dislike extremely to be called--"Scientists.

I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude in a chair or sofa, while I wandered over the hills and far away in novel company and new scenes... My world began to expand very rapidly,... the reading habit had got me securely.

His studies were pursued but never effectually overtaken.

He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.