8 Quotes by H.G.Wells

Here these fools-I'm trying to conquer a new element-trying to do a thing that will revolutionise life. And instead of taking an intelligent interest, they grin and make their stupid jokes, and call me and my appliances names.

I cannot consider anything. Professors in this College are machines. The Regulations will not even let us recommend our students for appointments. I am a machine, and you have worked me. I have to do --

It may be-indeed to my mind it seems just-that, when our life has closed, when evil or good is no longer a choice for us, we may still have to witness the working out of the train of consequences we have laid. If human souls continue after death, then surely human interests continue after death. But that is merely my own guess at the meaning of the things seen

But it shows you, don't it?"-his eye went down to the tankard again,-"it shows you,too, how we poor human beings fail to understand one another.

Men are killed outright in the reserves sometimes, while others who have been left for dead in the thickest corner crawl out and survive

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

The water would shoot in like a jet of iron. Have you ever felt a straight jet of high pressure water? It would hit as hard as a bullet. It would simply smash him and flatten him. It would tear down his throat, and into his lungs; it would blow in his ears-""What a detailed imagination you have," protested Steevens, who saw things vividly."It's a simple statement of the inevitable," said the lieutenant.

That's the way with all you religious people. It's all a business of inducements. Cannot a man seek after righteousness for righteousness' sake?