Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
H. G. WELLSAdapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
H. G. WELLSThe crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
H. G. WELLSWe 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.
H. G. WELLSBeauty is in the heart of the beholder.
H. G. WELLSIf you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
H. G. WELLSThe uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
H. G. WELLSIt is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
H. G. WELLSThe past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
H. G. WELLSWe have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
H. G. WELLSWhat really matters is what you do with what you have.
H. G. WELLSThe path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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.
H. G. WELLSOne of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
H. G. WELLSWhile 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.
H. G. WELLSMoral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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