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

Quote by H G Wells

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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf-it's almost a law.

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf-it's almost a law.

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...

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or...

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or...

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.

Advertising is legalized lying.

Advertising is legalized lying.

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...

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the...

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the...

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize...

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize...

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

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

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

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international...

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international...

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that...

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that...

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...

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

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

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.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they...

Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they...