H. G. Wells

The forceps of our minds are clumsy things and crush the truth a little in the course of taking hold of it.

H. G. Wells

When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.

H. G. Wells

Will is stronger than fact: it can mould and overcome fact.

H. G. Wells

You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

H. G. Wells

A biography should be a dissection and demonstration of how a particular human being was made and worked.

H. G. Wells

A certain elementary training in statistical method is becoming as necessary for everyone living in this world of today as reading and writing.

H. G. Wells

A day will come when beings, now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon Earth as a footstool and laugh, and reach out their hands amidst the stars.

H. G. Wells

A few minutes before, there had only been three real things before me – the immensity of the night and space and nature, my own feebleness and anguish, and the near approach of death.

H. G. Wells

A 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.

H. G. Wells

A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all.

H. G. Wells