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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.

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"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."

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.
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Born: September 21, 1866
Died: August 13, 1946 (aged 79)
Bio: Herbert George Wells, known primarily 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.
Known for:
  1. The Time Machine (1895)
  2. The War of the Worlds (1898)
  3. The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896)
  4. The First Men in the Moon (1901)
  5. Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul (1905)
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