Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.
("The Time Machine")
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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 and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.H.G. Wells
It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.
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This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.
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We all have our time machines.Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward,are dreams!
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If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.
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Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are!
H.G. Wells
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