H. G. Wells
“Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe.”
“We are living in 1902, and the future is not what it used to be.”
“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's.”
“Advertising is legalized lying.”
“Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”
“Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write.”
“The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.”
“If we don't end war, war will end us.”
“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.”