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Date of Birth
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21-September-1866
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Place of Birth
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Bromley
(England, United Kingdom, Kent)
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Nationality
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United Kingdom
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Also know as
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H.G. Wells, Herbert George Wells, Septimus Browne, Sosthenes Smith, Walter Shockenhammer, HG Wells, The Man Who Invented Tomorrow, Herbert George "H. G." Wells, H.G. Wells, Walter Shockenhammer, Sosthenes Smith, Septimus Browne, Herbert George Wells, HG Wells, Herbert George Wells, The man on his time
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Profession
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Writer, Novelist, Historian, Teacher, Journalist
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Quotes
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- It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.
- Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia.
- Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
- Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- A time will come when a politician who has wilfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with mens lives should not stake their own.
- The crisis of yesterday is the joke of tomorrow.
- There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored; that's the time for sex.
- Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative.
- Cynicism is humor in ill health.
- I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
- The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
- Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- Go away...I'm alright.
- Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
- The War That Will End War.
- There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
- Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
- The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
- Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.
- Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
- History is a race between education and catastrophe.
- The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.
- The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
- Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.
- He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.
- Advertising is legalized lying.
- Our true nationality is mankind.
- Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
- One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
- Go away, I'm all right!
- In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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Herbert George "H. G." Wells was an English writer, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing textbooks and rules for war games. Wells is sometimes called "The Father of Science Fiction", as are Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback. His most notable science fiction works include The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man and The Island of Doctor Moreau.
Wells's earliest specialised training was in biology, and his thinking on ethical matters took place in a specifically and fundamentally Darwinian context. He was also from an early date an outspoken socialist, often sympathising with pacifist views. His later works became increasingly political and didactic, and he sometimes indicated on official documents that his profession was that of "Journalist." Most of his later novels were not science fiction. Some described lower-middle class life, leading him to be touted as a worthy successor to Charles Dickens, but Wells described a range of social strata and even attempted, in Tono-Bungay, a diagnosis of English society as a whole.
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