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H. G. Wells

English writer

1866–1946

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

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature’s inexorable imperative.
The Mind at the End of its Tether (1945), p. 19
- Change
- Nature
By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers
The War of the Worlds (1898), Book Two: The Earth under the Martians, Chapter VIIIIn context
- Life & Death
- Nature
Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.
The Time Machine (1895), Chapter XIn context
- Nature
- Time
The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.
The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), Chapter XIVIn context
- Nature
- Science
There is⁠—though I do not know how there is or why there is⁠—a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope. I hope, or I could not live.
The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), Chapter XXIIIn context
- Hope
- Nature

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