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Science Quotes by H.G. Wells
- The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.
- The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems are only accessible…
- Men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise.
- Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the most…
- Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.
- What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under which the active,…
- New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?
- Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.
- Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians.
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