H. G. Wells

• The past is but the begining of a begining, and all that is or has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
  • The Discovery of the Future, (1901)

The Outline of History (1920)

• "The weaving of mankind into one community does not impy the creation of a homogeneous community, but rather the reverse; the welcome and adequate utilization of distinctive quality in an atmosphere of understanding. /…/ Communities all to one pattern, like boxes of toy soldiers, are things of the past, rather than of the future."

• " A time when all such good things will be for all men may be coming more nearly than we think. Each one who believes that brings the good time nearer; each heart that fails delays it."

• "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. /… / Yet, clumsily or smoothly, the world, it seems, progresses and will progress. "

• " Life begins perpetually. Gathered together at last under the leadership of man, the student-teacher of the universe /… / and with knowledge as yet beyond dreaming, Life, forever dying to be born afresh, for ever young and eager, will presently stand upon this earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out it's realm amidst the stars. "

Attributed

• No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

• Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.