He had read Shakespeare and found him weak in chemistry.

— H. G. Wells

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

— H. G. Wells

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

— H. G. Wells

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

— H. G. Wells

Human history is in essence a history of ideas.

— H. G. Wells

If we don't end war, war will end us.

— H. G. Wells

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

— H. G. Wells

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

— H. G. Wells

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.

— H. G. Wells

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

— H. G. Wells