H. G. Wells

"'We were making the future,' he said, and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is'. "

"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. "

"Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life. "

"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. "

"Fools make researches and wise men exploit them. "

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. "

"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. "

"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. "

"No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft. "

"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow. "

"We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery. "