H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells
Herbert George Wells—known as H. G. Wells—was a prolific English writer in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, and social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels, and is called the father of science fiction, along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback. His most notable science fiction works include The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds. He was...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth21 September 1866
You have only to play at Little Wars three or four times to realize just what a blundering thing Great War must be. Great War is at present, I am convinced, not only the most expensive game in the universe, but it is a game out of all proportion. Not only are the masses of men and material and suffering and inconvenience too monstrously big for reason, but-the available heads we have for it, are too small. That, I think, is the most pacific realization conceivable, and Little War brings you to it as nothing else but Great War can do.
I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.
I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history.
The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
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.
Is it any wonder that to this day this Galilean is too much for our small hearts?
There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.
Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!
The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
I hope, or I could not live.