We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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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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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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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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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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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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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