Herbert George Wells was born at Bromley, England on this day in 1866. He was apprenticed as a draper, which inspired several of his novels, then taught school before securing a scholarship to the Normal School of Science at South Kensington. Although his writing covers a broad range, he is now best known for his science fiction work, mostly between 1895 and 1905, starting with The Time Machine and including The War of the Worlds.
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
Whilst there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness is not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever-increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations.
The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
- All from Herbert George Wells, 1866 - 1946
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