Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
JULES VERNEMan is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.
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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?
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Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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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 darkness is to you is light is to me.
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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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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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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Anything one man can imagine, other men 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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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It’s better that way.
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It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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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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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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Travel 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.
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But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
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