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H. G. Wells — Portrait after a picture by George Charles Beresford (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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H. G. Wells

English writer

1866–1946

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

There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.
The Time Machine (1895), Chapter IIn context
- Science
- Time
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
The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.
The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), Chapter XIVIn context
- Nature
- Science

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