Quotes by

H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells (1866-1946) trained as a biology teacher under Thomas Huxley before turning to fiction, and the scientific grounding shows: The Time Machine opens not with a machine but with an argument that time is a fourth dimension one could in principle move along. Published in 1895, it set the template for nearly all time-travel fiction that followed, and gave the genre its first serious use as social criticism — the far future it reaches is a class system carried to its conclusion. Quotes here are cited by chapter.

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s H. G. Wells

There is no difference between Time and any of the… — H. G. Wells

There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it H. G. Wells