H. G. Wells
  • We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

  • After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

  • Cynicism is humor in ill health.

  • Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

  • History is a race between education and catastrophe.