H. G. Wells Quotes

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The Martians seem to have calculated their descent with amazing amazing subtlety — their mathematical learning is evidently far in excess of ours.

H. G. Wells

"Could I but rotate my arm out of the limits set to it," one of the Utopians had said to him, "I could thrust it into a thousand dimensions."

H. G. Wells

The man of science comes to believe at last that the events of the year A.D. 4000 are as fixed, settled, and unchangeable as the events of the year 1600. Only about the latter he has some material for belief and about the former practically none.

H. G. Wells

The eye of faith is no better than the eye of science.

H. G. Wells

I'm afraid I cannot convey the peculiar sensations of time traveling. They are excessively unpleasant.

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History is no exception amongst the sciences; as the gaps fill in, the outline simplifies; as the outlook broadens, the clustering multitude of details dissolve into general laws.

H. G. Wells

If after all my Atheology turns out wrong and your Theology right I feel I shall always be able to pass into Heaven (if I want to) as a friend of G.K.C.'s. Bless you.

H. G. Wells