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
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Date of Birth21 September 1866
It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.
Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.
Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you've been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are.
The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
Tell the truth and read story books;it will take you to the magical moment in a glory night.
If we don't end war, war will end us.
There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. [...] It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty, and abomination than any other sort of error in the world.
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.