215 Quotes by H.G. Wells

In a moment my hand was on the lever, and I had placed a month between myself and these monsters.

For my own part, I was much occupied in learning to ride the bicycle, and busy upon a series of papers discussing the probable developments of moral ideas as civilization progressed.

For that moment I touched an emotion beyond the common range of men, yet one that the boor brutes we dominate know only too well...I felt the first inkling of a thing that grew quite presently clear in my mind, that oppressed me for many days, a sense of dethronement, a persuasion that I was no longer a master, but an animal among the animals, under the Martian heel. With us it would be as with them, to lurk and watch, to run and hide; the fear and empire of man had passed away.

Mevcut edebiyatımız iyi durumda, buna şüphe yok; ama bir düşünür için, yazılmamış kitaplar çok daha çekicidir.

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

Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary a qualification for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write.

The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

It's giving girls names like that [Euphemia],' said Biggins, 'that nine times out of ten makes 'em go wrong. It unsettles 'em. If ever I was to have a girl, if ever I was to have a dozen girls, I'd call 'em all Jane.'