Wells, Herbert George (H. G. Wells)

English author, historian, and utopian

pioneer of science fiction

wrote "The Outline of History" 1920, novels "The Time Machine" 1895, "The Invisible Man" 1897, "The War of the Worlds" 1898

• "Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth."
• "You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something."
• "His studies were pursued but never effectually overtaken."
• "When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine."
• "The forceps of our minds are clumsy things and crush the truth a little in the course of taking hold of it."