Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H.G. Wells Quotes
I do not believe I have any immortality. The greatest evil in the world today is the Christian religion.
I think that it stands for everything most hostile to the mental emancipation and stimulation of mankind. It is the completest, most highly organized system of prejudices and antagonism in existence. Everywhere in the world there are ignorance and prejudice, but the greatest complex of these, with the most extensive prestige and the most intimate […]
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
Certainly it seems now that nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the earlier twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as certainly they did not see it. They did not see it until the atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands. Yet the broad facts must […]
To my mind radio-activity is a real disease of matter. Moreover, it is a contagious disease. It spreads. You bring those debased and crumbling atoms near others and those too presently catch the trick of swinging themselves out of coherent existence… I am haunted by a grotesque fancy of the ultimate eating away and dry-rotting […]
Of one fact about professed atheists I am convinced; they may be – they usually are – fools, void of subtlety, revilers of holy institutions, brutal speakers, and mischievous knaves, but they lie with difficulty. If it were not so, if they had the faintest grasp of the idea of compromise, they would simply be […]
Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.
(America is) a vain, garrulous and prosperous female of uncertain age, and still more uncertain temper, with unfounded pretensions to intellectuality and an idea of refinement of the most negative description – the Aunt Errant of Christendom.
Advertising is legalized lying.
