# Quote — H.G. Wells, A Modern Utopia

> There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

- 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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> 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.

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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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