If you’re a fan of science fiction, the odds are that your favourite television show or series just wouldn’t exist without the inspirational prose of one man: H. G. Wells.
Born in Kent, England, Well’s love for writing all started when he was bedridden with a broken leg and turned to reading voraciously to pass the time. With his mother being a Protestant and his father being a freethinker, the Wells household was a fractious one, leading him to pursue an unhappy career in teaching.
After starting a family of his own, Wells started to write novels at the end of the 19th century and went on to create some of the greatest books of all time. The likes of The Time Machine
On what would have been the 149th birthday of H. G. Wells, we take a look at some his best quotes.
“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
“Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”
A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.
“Our true nationality is mankind.”
“If we don’t end war, war will end us.”
“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”
“Advertising is legalized lying.”
“Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.”
The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
“Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.”
“Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.”
“Human history in essence is the history of ideas.”
“In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.”
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