649 Quotes by H. G. Wells

The catastrophe of the atomic bombs which shook men out of cities and businesses and economic relations, shook them also out of their old-established habits of thought, and out of the lightly held beliefs and prejudices that came down to them from the past.

Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians.

To be honest, one must be inconsistent.

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.

The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enormously destructive and entirely indecisive.

An immense and ever-increasing wealth of knowledge is scattered about the world today; knowledge that would probably suffice to solve all the mighty difficulties of our age, but it is dispersed and unorganized. We need a sort of mental clearing house for the mind: a depot where knowledge and ideas are received, sorted, summarized, digested, clarified and compared.

If there is no God, nothing matters. If there is a God, nothing else matters.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.