A biography should be a dissection and demonstration of how a particular human being was made and worked. H. G. Wells More Quotes by H. G. Wells More Quotes From H. G. Wells Men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. H. G. Wells might men science 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 part unsubdued. Like all such hinterland sciences, it is a happy hunting-ground for adventurers. H. G. Wells sphere-of-influence hunting spheres There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection. H. G. Wells engineering iron bridges When the mind grapples with a great and intricate problem, it makes its advances step by step, with but little realization of the gains it has made, until suddenly, with an effect of abrupt illumination, it realizes its victory. H. G. Wells illumination victory mind London, ... like a bowl of viscid human fluid, boils sullenly over the rim of its encircling hills and slops messily into the home counties. H. G. Wells hills london home I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain." H. G. Wells vain loss add An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic. H. G. Wells critics artist It is not much good thinking of a thing unless you think it out. H. G. Wells good-thinking thinking Let us get together with other people of our sort and make over the world into a great world-civilization that will enable us to realize the promises and avoid the dangers of this new time. H. G. Wells civilization people promise There is no reason whatever to believe that the order of nature has any greater bias in favour of man than it had in favour of the ichthyosaur or the pterodactyl. H. G. Wells men order believe Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses. H. G. Wells suggestions mind mean We must end war before war ends us. H. G. Wells ends war The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life. H. G. Wells conflict ultimate individuality If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything. H. G. Wells war believe people The crisis of yesterday is the joke of tomorrow. H. G. Wells 'We were making the future,' he said, and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is'. H. G. Wells A time will come when a politician who has wilfully 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 mens lives should not stake their own. H. G. Wells Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia. H. G. Wells 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. 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
