H. G. Wells Quotes

When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an optimistic genre. What it says at the end of the day is that there is a tomorrow, we do go on, we don't extinguish ourselves and leave the planet to the cockroaches.

Visions establish hope.

For better or worse, we live in possible worlds as much as actual ones. We are cursed by that characteristically human guilt and regret about what might have been in the past. But that may be the cost for our ability to hope and plan for what might be in the future.

Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

The genre of science fiction is a fun house, an amusement park ride, but it's also a problem. The question that's always being indirectly asked is this: 'Just who do we think we are and, further, who do we want to be?'

I love the sci-fi world and the way it makes me start to question things.

We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.

We're all dreamers.

If you can see the magic in a fairytale, you can face the future.

I have to believe SF writers will continue to inspire the public to have faith in - to demand! - a future that is at least as big and bold as the past.

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

I don't know if science and reason will ultimately help guide humanity to a better and more peaceful future, but I am certain that this belief is part of what keeps the 'Star Trek' fandom going.

[Addressing Thomas Jefferson:] Your taste is judicious in liking better the dreams of the future than the history of the past.

What is past cannot be rewritten, but it is within our power to rewrite the future.

I only remember the future.

As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man, strong and beautiful, will become master of the drifting stream of his history and will direct it towards the boundless horizons of beauty, joy and happiness!

If all greatness lies in the past, what is the point of the future?

Each day has its own destiny. Yesterday is history, today is opportunity while tomorrow is mystery.

What is the world for if you can't make it up the way you want it.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What's the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

When I was 20 and 30, my visions for what the world would be, all things were possible.

There is a better place, the hard but joyful work beyond struggle, beyond the shadow of a doubt. It is our real home, the long-remembered future when everything worked and things made sense.

There is a past which is gone forever, but there is a future which is still our own.

As for me, the grounds of my hope have always been that history is wilder than our imagination of it and that the unexpected shows up far more regularly than we ever dream.