The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.
H. G. WellsNothing could have been more obvious to the people of the early twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as certainly they did not see it. They did not see it until the atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands.
H. G. WellsIn the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.
H. G. Wells