H. G. Wells Quotes

H. G. Wells

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

H. G. Wells
(Conquest of Time)
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There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven.

H. G. Wells (The Island of Doctor Moreau, 1896)

Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.

H. G. Wells (A Modern Utopia, 1905)

A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously, "Was there ever such a world?".

H. G. Wells (The Open Conspiracy, 1933)

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.

H. G. Wells (A Modern Utopia, 1905)

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change.

H. G. Wells (The Time Machine, 1895)

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

H. G. Wells

We are but phantoms... and the phantoms of phantoms, desires like cloud-shadows and wills of straw that eddy in the wind; the days pass, use and wont carry us through as a train carries the shadow of its lights.

H. G. Wells (A Dream of Armageddon)

Man ... can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time-Dimension, or even turn about and travel the other way.

H. G. Wells (The Time Machine, 1895)

We have learned now that we cannot regard this planet as being fenced in and a secure abiding place for Man; we can never anticipate the unseen good or evil that may come upon us suddenly out of space.

H. G. Wells (The War of the Worlds, 1898)

While 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. Wells

Some people bear three kinds of trouble:
The ones they've had,
The ones they have, and
The ones they expect to have.

H. G. Wells

Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.

H. G. Wells (The Time Machine, 1895)

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 (The Salvaging of Civilization, 1921)

Life begins perpetually. Gathered together at last under the leadership of man, the student-teacher of the universe... unified, disciplined, armed with the secret powers of the atom, and with knowledge as yet beyond dreaming, Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars.

H. G. Wells (The Outline of History, 1920)

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H. G. Wells Biography

Born: September 21, 1866
Died: August 13, 1946

Herbert George Wells was an English author and historian. He is best known for his science fiction novels and has often been called the Father of Science Fiction.

Notable Works

The Time Machine (1895)
The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896)
The Wheels of Chance (1896)
The Invisible Man (1897)
The War of the Worlds (1898)
When the Sleeper Wakes (1899)
The First Men in the Moon (1901)
A Modern Utopia (1905)
The Outline of History (1920)
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