H. G. Wells Quotes

I've always been fascinated by intelligence and how our brains work, and how they can be improved.

My fingers are not as fast as my brain - which isn't that much to type home about anyway.

Some people are amazed at my brain, but really it's nothing.

There's a place in the brain for knowing what cannot be remembered.

But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph; I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them,-- Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun.

If his IQ slips any lower, we'll have to water him twice a day

People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent.

A man with so large a brain must have something in it.

Someone told me once that I'm worse than a dog, I'm the scum of the earth, so for me it was draining.

I was so ugly my parents had to hang a pork chop around my neck to get the dog to play with me.

I don't want you to be young and beautiful. I only want one thing. I want you to be kind-hearted - and not just towards cats and dogs.

The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.

In the early years of the Uprising, we survived on one meal a day of horse meat and soup, but by the end we ate only dried peas, dogs, cats and birds.

I always said that I'm not the best singer in the world, just the loudest.

I still think people will find out that I’m really not very talented. I’m really not very good. It’s all been a big sham.

If a dog happens to catch a rabbit or another animal, it can very easily remove the hide. If a cat catches a squirrel, they have no trouble with that. But if a person does that, they will work all day and all night to get the skin off of an animal, because they don't have long canine teeth anymore.

You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius.

I was a fat-headed guy, full of pain.

Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.

Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal... In truth, man is incurably foolish. Simple things which the other animals easily learn, he is incapable of learning. Among my experiments was this. In an hour I taught a cat and a dog to be friends. I put them in a cage. In another hour I taught them to be friends with a rabbit. In the course of two days I was able to add a fox, a goose, a squirrel and some doves. Finally a monkey. They lived together in peace; even affectionately.

I certainly believe that we have a moral obligation to care for the dogs, cats, and other nonhumans whose existence we have caused or facilitated as part of the institution of 'pet' ownership. But I maintain that we ought to abolish the institution and stop causing or facilitating the existence of more 'companion' animals.

The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.

I've held a brain in my hands, which is an extraordinary experience.

A Grand Design we couldn't see because we were part of it. A Grand Design we only got occasional, fleeting glimpses of. A Grand Design involving the entire course of history and all of time and space that, for some unfathomable reason, chose to work out its designs with cats and croquet mallets and penwipers, to say nothing of the dog. And a hideous piece of Victorian artwork. And us.

My brain? It's my second favorite organ!