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
The religion of the atheist has a God-shaped blank at it's heart.....
Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry.
If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden, and no Fall. And if there had been no fall, then the entire historical fabric of Christianity, the story of the first sin and the reason for an atonement ... collapsed like a house of cards.
Countless people...will hate the New World Order...and will die protesting against it...we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents...
We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King's war with Germany.
This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it.
I believe that now and always the conscious selection of the best for reproduction will be impossible; that to propose it is to display a fundamental misunderstanding of what individuality implies. The way of nature has always been to slay the hindmost, and there is still no other way, unless we can prevent those who would become the hindmost being born. It is in the sterilization of failure, and not in the selection of successes for breeding, that the possibility of an improvement of the human stock lies.
There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.
...the Idumeans (Edomites) were...made Jews...and a Turkish people (Khazars) were mainly Jews in South Russia...The main part of Jewry never was in Judea and had never come out of Judea.
The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone, but, the dog, like his master, is confused in his mind.
Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.
The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast - is choice.
In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.
Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.