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. WELLSBeauty is in the heart of the beholder.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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