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
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Advertising is legalized lying.
Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians.
If there is no God, nothing matters. If there is a God, nothing else matters.
Until a man has found God, he begins at no beginning and works to no end.
The German people are an orderly, vain, deeply sentimental and rather insensitive people. They seem to feel at their best when they are singing in chorus, saluting or obeying orders.
Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.
There is no upper limit to what individuals are capable of doing with their minds. There is no age limit that bars them from beginning. There is no obstacle that cannot be overcome if they persist and believe.
Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and foremost place to the penniless Teacher of Nazareth.
The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas.
The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.
We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.