We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
H. G. WELLSThe past is but the past of a beginning.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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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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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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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