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.
H. G. WELLSI 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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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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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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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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 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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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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.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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