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 VERNEAn English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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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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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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So is man’s heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.
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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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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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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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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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Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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I saw the world. I learnt of new cultures. I flew across an ocean. I wore women’s clothing. Made a friend. Fell in love. Who cares if I lost a wager?
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We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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