The Time Machine

by H.G. Wells

“if Time is really only a fourth dimension of Space, why is it, and why has it always been, regarded as something different?

This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then come languor and decay.

am too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours—that is another matter.

“It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have to meet a huge variety of needs and dangers.