No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
H. G. WELLSBiologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Some people bear three kinds of trouble – the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
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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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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
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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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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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