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

Quote by H G Wells

Topics: Catastrophe Quotes, History Quotes

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 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...

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...

Advertising is legalized lying.

Advertising is legalized lying.

Our true nationality is mankind.

Our true nationality is mankind.

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...

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...

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish...

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish...

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...

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

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.

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...

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

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

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...

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.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

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

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

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

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

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the...

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the...