H. G. Wells Quotes

Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost.

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.

The progress of science is much more muddled than is depicted in most history books. This is especially true of theoretical physics, partly because history is written by the victorious.

At some point, the time will have passed when individuals are capable of major discoveries.

We have our hands on an appalling bit of technology where the world is concerned. With rapidity and a Meter it can be shown that Heaven is a false dream and that the old religion was based on very painful lie, cynical betrayal.

Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.

Universities which deliver high quality research and innovation will be an essential part of that future.

We need to show why the government should be funding science and how that funding delivers.

University research is crucial to our future as a nation.

Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home.

'T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven.

A great discovery is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows us new paths.

Is it not evident, in these last hundred years (when the Study of Philosophy has been the business of all the Virtuosi in Christendome) that almost a new Nature has been revealed to us? that more errours of the School have been detected, more useful Experiments in Philosophy have been made, more Noble Secrets in Opticks, Medicine, Anatomy, Astronomy, discover'd, than in all those credulous and doting Ages from Aristotle to us? So true it is that nothing spreads more fast than Science, when rightly and generally cultivated.

Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument. The native intellectual powers of men in different times are not so much the causes of the different success of their labours, as the peculiar nature of the means and artificial resources in their possession.

Science is of value because it can produce something.

The countries the most famous and the most respected of antiquity are those which distinguished themselves by promoting and patronizing science, and on the contrary those which neglected or discouraged it are universally denominated rude and barbarous.

Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War...

He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

If martyrdom is now on the decline, it is not because martyrs are less zealous, but because martyr-mongers are more wise. The light of intellect has put out the fire of persecution, as other fires are observed to smoulder before the light of the same.

The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann'd all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and Æons by, Was-Heavens!-was thy small Nine-and-thirty Articles!