prolific English writer best known for his science-fiction novels; he also wrote on contemporary social problems and wrote popular accounts of history and science (1866-1946)

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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
'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.
Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom
The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
The past is but the past of a beginning.
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.
When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.

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