More - H. G. Wells Quotes

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

H. G. Wells

 English Author

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

H. G. Wells

 Crisis English Author

The pieces of DNA you find in the Y-chromosome don't go through the same shuffling process that other DNA undergoes, so it is easier to trace,

H. G. Wells

 DNA

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

H. G. Wells

 Getting Ahead

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

H. G. Wells

 English Author

Rest enough for the individual man, too much and too soon, and we call it death. But for man, no rest and no ending. He must go on, conquest beyond conquest. First this little planet and all its winds and ways, and then all the laws of mind and matter that restrain him. Then the planets about him, and, at last, out across immensities to the stars. And when he has conquered all the deep space, and all the mysteries of time, still he will be beginning.

H. G. Wells

 Death

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

H. G. Wells

 Adulthood English Author

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

H. G. Wells

 

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

H. G. Wells

 England Reform

This is a giant leap forward for field expeditions everywhere,

H. G. Wells

 Challenges