H. G. Wells Quotes

In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.

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• In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.

  

  H. G. Wells
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