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He had read Shakespeare and found him weak in chemistry.

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They did not think politics was a great constructive process, they thought it was a kind of dog-fight. They wanted fun, they wanted spice, they wanted...more

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For the most part people went about their business with an entirely irresponsible confidence in the stability of the universe.

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Without world unification the species would destroy itself by the enlarged powers that had come to it. This, said the men of science, is no theory, no...more

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Had Moreau had any intelligible object, I could have sympathized at least a little with him. I am not so squeamish about pain as that. I could have fo...more

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Particularly nauseous were the blank expressionless faces of people in trains and omnibuses; they seemed no more my fellow-creatures than dead bodies ...more

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The development of the telescope marks, indeed, a new phase in human thought, a new vision of life. It is an extraordinary thing that the Greeks, with...more

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After all, the sanitation and the agriculture of today are still in the rudimentary stage. The science of our time has attacked but a little departmen...more

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I think that at that time none of us quite believed in the Time Machine. The fact is, the Time Traveler was one of those men who are too clever to be ...more

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It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony w...more

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In relation to law I am doubtful whether, even at the present time, science has fairly begun.