Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
H. G. WELLSThere is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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