Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Quote by H G Wells

Topics: Catastrophe Quotes, History Quotes

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of...

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of...

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges...

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges...

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since...

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since...

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

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.

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it...

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it...

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the...

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the...

You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a...

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a...

Advertising is legalized lying.

Advertising is legalized lying.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

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

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

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything...

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything...

The past is but the past of a beginning.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

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

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

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done...

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done...

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend...

At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend...

Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks....

Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks....