Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.
JULES VERNEThe sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable.
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We see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the ‘Living Infinite.
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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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