The religion of the atheist has a God-shaped blank at it's heart.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Ignorance is not an extension of time
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
If there is no God, nothing matters. If there is a God, nothing else matters.
The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness.