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Quotes from The First Men in the Moon — H. G. Wells

1866–1946 England

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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)

Every citizen knows his place. He is born to that place, and the elaborate discipline of training and education and surgery he undergoes fits him at last so completely to it that he has neither ideas nor organs for any purpose beyond it.

The First Men in the Moon (1901)

Over me, around me, closing in on me, embracing me ever nearer, was the Eternal; that which was before the beginning, and that which triumphs over the end; that enormous void in which all light and life and being is but the thin and vanishing splendour of a falling star, the cold, the stillness, the silence—the infinite and final Night of space.

The First Men in the Moon (1901)

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