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H. G. Wells

English writer

1866–1946

29 quotes, most often on Nature, Government and Science.

There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change.
The Time Machine (1895), Chapter XIIIIn context
- Change
- Intelligence
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
The War of the Worlds (1898), Book One: The Coming of the Martians, Chapter IIn context
- Intelligence
- Science
Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.
The War of the Worlds (1898), Book One: The Coming of the Martians, Chapter IIn context
- Envy
- Intelligence

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