Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
JULES VERNETravel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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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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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, – in God’s good time.
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.
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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?
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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.
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