Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
H. G. WELLSHuman history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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There’s nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn’t abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive ‘policies’ and ‘Plans’ of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word ‘socialism’, but what else can one call it?
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
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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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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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