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To this day I have never troubled about the ethics of the matter. The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.
The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896)
And how will the new republic treat the inferior races?
How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem at a distance of a few million miles.
An animal may be cunning and ferocious enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.
The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896)
The old men behave for the most part meanly and disgustingly, and the young are spasmodic, foolish and all too easily misled.
The Mind at the End of its Tether (1945)
Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
Crux Ansata: An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church (1943)
I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world.
The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.
A Modern Utopia (1905)
If his thinking has been sound, then this world is at the end of its tether. The end of everything we call life is close at hand and cannot be evaded.
The Mind at the End of its Tether (1945)
A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,"Was there ever such a world?"
The Open Conspiracy (1933)
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe... Yet, clumsily or smoothly, the world, it seems, progresses and will progress.
The Outline of History (1920)
Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions, great or small.
Joan and Peter: The Story of an Education (1918)
Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough—as most wrong theories are!
When the history of our civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.
I was never a great amorist, though I have loved several people very deeply.
An Experiment in Autobiography (1934)
An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.
The Temptaion of Harringay (1929)
Great and strange ideas transcending experience often have less effect upon men and women than smaller, more tangible considerations.
The Invisible Man (1897)
I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.
The First Men in the Moon (1901)
Marguerite, joyfully: “We are ourselves, my dear, we are ourselves. Well never be anyone else.”