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  • The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems are only accessible and only thinkable to those who have had a sound training in mathematical analysis, and the time may not be very remote when it will be understood that for complete initiation as an efficient citizen of one of the new great complex worldwide States that are now developing, it is as necessary to be able to compute, to think in averages and maxima and minima, as it is now to be able to read and write.

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    H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.8611, Delphi Classics

  • Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another.

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    H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.1579, Delphi Classics

  • Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!

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    Quoted in Warren Weaver's article Statistics Scientific American January 1952

  • Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.

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    H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.3110, Delphi Classics

  • No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document.

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  • I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.

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    H. G. Wells (2016). “Experiment in Autobiography - Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain (since 1866)”, p.397, Read Books Ltd

  • I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.

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    H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.2056, Delphi Classics

  • Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

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  • Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and foremost place to the penniless Teacher of Nazareth.

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  • If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.

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  • No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

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  • I write to cover a frame of ideas.

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H. G. Wells

  • Born: September 21, 1866
  • Died: August 13, 1946
  • Occupation: Writer
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