“The whole world will be intelligent, educated, and co-operating; things will move faster and faster towards the subjugation of Nature. In the… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“our world; and long before this earth ceased to be molten, life upon its surface must have begun its course. The fact… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“To-day is the day of wealth. Wealth now is power as it never was power before—it commands earth and sea and sky.… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“I say I became habituated to the Beast People, that a thousand things which had seemed unnatural and repulsive speedly became natural… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“After all, the sanitation and the agriculture of today are still in the rudimentary stage. The science of our time has attacked… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“Even now, does not an East-end worker live in such artificial conditions as practically to be cut off from the natural surface… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“To Europe she was America. To America she was the gateway to the earth. But to tell the story of New York… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“man so soon as his first virile activity declined. Over most of the great wildernesses of earth you would have sought him… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“The planet Mars, I scarcely need remind the reader, revolves about the sun at a mean distance of 140,000,000 miles, and the… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers.” — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“This — this is the dawn of a new day in human living. At the climax of that civilisation which had its… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“I was grotesque to the theatrical pitch, a stage miser, but I was certainly not a physical impossibility” — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“Eight-and-twenty years,' said I, 'I have lived, and never a ghost have I seen as yet.' The old woman sat staring hard into the… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“That is the germ of my great discovery. But you are wrong to say that we cannot move about in Time. For instance, if… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“The thing [Henry James'] novel is about is always there. It is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“We must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals, such as vanished bison and the dodo,… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“I grieved to think how brief the dream of the human intellect had been. It had committed suicide. It had set itself steadfastly towards… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“What right have they to hope? They work ill and they want the reward of those who work well. The hope of mankind -… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“So long as you are alive you are just the moment, perhaps, but when you are dead then you are all your life from… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“An unpleasant odour would not be objected to, it is not objected to now in many continental hotels.” — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
