Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
H. G. WELLSA time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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 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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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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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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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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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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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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