# Quote — H.G. Wells, A Modern Utopia

> The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.

- Author: [H.G. Wells](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hg-wells.md)
- Book: [A Modern Utopia](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hg-wells/a-modern-utopia.md)
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> Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia.

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> Fools make researches and wise men exploit them—that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for an assumed abundance of financially impotent and sufficiently ingenious fools.

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> But man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of Nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

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