Herbert George Wells, the English author began his career as a novelist with a popular sequence of science fiction that
remains the most familiar part of his work. He later wrote realistic novels and novels of ideas. He achieved fame with scientific
fantasies such as The Time Machine (1895) and War of the Worlds (1898), and wrote a range of comic social novels which proved highly popular.
H.G. Wells was a very brave man. He was profoundly disturbed by the rising of the Nazi Germany and fascism in Italy. His critical
writings on the aggressive Imperial Germany coupled with his violent attacks on Adolf Hitler and his collaborators. His "anti-German"
books were burned by Goebbels during the infamous book bonfires at German universities.
The name "H.G. Wells" appeared very near the top of a list compiled by the SS/SD command staff of those intellectuals and politicians
slated for immediate liquidation upon the invasion of Britain by the Nazis.
(1866 - 1946)
The past is but the past of a beginning.
~ Herbert George Wells
The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
~ Herbert George Wells
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
~ Herbert George Wells
I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
~ Herbert George Wells
I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
~ Herbert George Wells
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
~ Herbert George Wells
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
~ Herbert George Wells
If we don't end war, war will end us.
~ Herbert George Wells
It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
~ Herbert George Wells
Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
~ Herbert George Wells
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.
~ Herbert George Wells
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
~ Herbert George Wells
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
~ Herbert George Wells
Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
~ Herbert George Wells
One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
~ Herbert George Wells
Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
~ Herbert George Wells
In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
~ Herbert George Wells
The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
~ Herbert George Wells
Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?
~ Herbert George Wells
He was, at his time, not only one of the world's foremost astrologers, but a philosopher, physicist, and mathematician as well.
For his astrological theories and his true support of Copernicus, Galileo was many times criticized by the church.
Galileo is considered one of the first true scientists because of his system of hypothesis and experimentation. He found that
Jupiter did have moons that revolved around it.
He also discovered lunar mountains and valleys, and added on to previous discoveries of sunspots, which displayed the
'imperfections' of what was thought to be a perfect universe.
(1564 - 1642)
Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
~ Mark Twain
It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
~ Voltaire
There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.
~ Henry Ford
