History is a race between education and catastrophe.

Quote by H G Wells

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History is a race between education and catastrophe.

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

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 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.

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not...

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not...

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

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...

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the...

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the...

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

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

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...

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

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

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

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...

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...

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.

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

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

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the...

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the...

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.

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

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

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

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

The past is but the past of a beginning.

The past is but the past of a beginning.