H. G. Wells

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever-increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

'We were making the future,' he said, and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is'.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.