A widely-read person never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that they have read too widely. H.G. Wells, was not a thinker nor a scientist, but a creative writer whose imagination had been fired by science. Gilbert Phelps Recent science may have left Wells behind, but the attitude of imagination which he brought to science has not dated. The ideal society would have no stated rules because it would be so designed that everyone would do the right thing anyway. The urge to dominate somebody else is a sign of a small mind.
People resist change because they expect it to be complex and difficult.
When a problem has a solution, you find it. When it doesn't it becomes a fact of life, and you live with it. Avoidable ignorance is the one great sin. Any fool can obey an instinct blindly. That is why so many fools get into trouble.