A scholar has to know a little of everything.
JULES VERNEWhat pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
More Jules Verne Quotes
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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 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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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.
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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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What you do for money you do badly.
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Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.
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On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man
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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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Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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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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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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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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