Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind. H. G. Wells More Quotes by H. G. Wells More Quotes From H. G. Wells You Americans have the loveliest wine in the world, you know, but you don't realize it. You call them domestic and that's enough to start trouble anywhere. H. G. Wells realizing wine world Religions are such stuff as dreams are made of. H. G. Wells dream stuff religion Few people who know of the work of Langley, Lilienthal, Pilcher, Maxim and Chanute but will be inclined to believe that long before the year 2000 A.D., and very probably before 1950, a successful aeroplane will have soared and come home safe and sound. H. G. Wells successful home believe ... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people ... will hate the New World Order and will die protesting against it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people. H. G. Wells money hate disappointment Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. H. G. Wells nature change natural My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of astronomy. 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. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope. H. G. Wells reading animal night The past is but the past of a beginning. H. G. Wells literature past 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 able may men Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart. H. G. Wells blow heart writing Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas. H. G. Wells historical essence ideas There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess H. G. Wells remorse chess Life is two things. Life is morality – life is adventure. Squire and master. Adventure rules, and morality looks up the trains in the Bradshaw. Morality tells you what is right, and adventure moves you. If morality means anything it means keeping bounds, respecting implications, respecting implicit bounds. If individuality means anything it means breaking bounds – adventure. H. G. Wells adventure mean moving This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay. H. G. Wells fate energy art When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine. H. G. Wells heroines birth-control civilization Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are! H. G. Wells theory simple enough A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all. H. G. Wells order lying world The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. H. G. Wells dawn twilight past There's truths you have to grow into. H. G. Wells disillusionment grows Ignorance is not an extension of time H. G. Wells ignorance success inspirational Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims. H. G. Wells dust stars people
