There 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.
H. G. WELLSMan 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.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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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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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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Our true nationality is mankind.
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While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
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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 uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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